# How to install 1.9.2 on windows 7

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 13, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-1-9-2-on-windows-7/191488 "2010-07-13T13:25:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![bartee](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@bartee](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bartee)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-1-9-2-on-windows-7/191488/1 "2010-07-13T13:25:07Z")

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I am somewhat a noob !

Used windows installer to get 1.9.1 on windows.

I am getting errors using Rails 3 and 1.9.1 as described by many.

Would like to get 1.9.2 on my win machine.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

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**Author:** ![bartee](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@bartee](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bartee)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 3:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-1-9-2-on-windows-7/191488/2 "2010-07-13T15:05:53Z")

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Bartee L. wrote:

> I am somewhat a noob !
> 
> Used windows installer to get 1.9.1 on windows.
> 
> I am getting errors using Rails 3 and 1.9.1 as described by many.
> 
> Would like to get 1.9.2 on my win machine.
> 
> Any pointers would be appreciated.

You install YARV 1.9.2 pretty much the same way you install YARV  
1.9.1, MRI 1.8.7 or MRI 1.8.6:

1. Download the package from  
[https://RubyForge.Org/projects/rubyinstaller/](https://RubyForge.Org/projects/rubyinstaller/)
2. Extract it to a directory of your choosing (though ideally one  
without spaces or non-ASCII characters in the pathname)
3. There is no step 3.
4. Well, actually, depending on your taste, you might want to install  
the devkit, add the bin directory to your %PATH% etc …

The only difference between pre-release versions and final releases is  
that final releases come in two flavors (an LZMA archive and a .exe  
installer) and have CHM documentation whereas the pre-releases only  
have the LZMA archives.

Note that IIRC, pik supports YARV 1.9.2, so if you use pik you should  
just be able to do:

```
pik install ruby 1.9.2

```

I can’t test it though, because for some reason, pik doesn’t work on  
my machine.

jwm

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**Author:** ![bartee](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@bartee](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bartee)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 5:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-1-9-2-on-windows-7/191488/3 "2010-07-13T17:41:31Z")

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> Used windows installer to get 1.9.1 on windows.
> 
> I am getting errors using Rails 3 and 1.9.1 as described by many.

what problems? Post back if it doesn’t fix with 1.9.2

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**Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 12:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-1-9-2-on-windows-7/191488/4 "2010-07-15T12:13:00Z")

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Roger P. wrote:

> > Used windows installer to get 1.9.1 on windows.
> > 
> > I am getting errors using Rails 3 and 1.9.1 as described by many.
> 
> what problems? Post back if it doesn’t fix with 1.9.2

Installing 1.9.2 corrected my problem.

I got a windows dialog box stating there had been an error in ruby.

Based on some searching in the rails 3 posts, I found statement of  
segment fault errors with Rails 3 and 191.

This is my 3rd attempt at approaching Ruby/Rails. I am doing better  
this time. There is just so much to know ( as with any language ).

So I got the test app to run !!

On to next steps…