# I foolishly used gems. How do I reset it all?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-foolishly-used-gems-how-do-i-reset-it-all/119028>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 2, 2007, 10:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-foolishly-used-gems-how-do-i-reset-it-all/119028 "2007-11-02T10:27:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![maz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@maz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maz)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 10:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-foolishly-used-gems-how-do-i-reset-it-all/119028/1 "2007-11-02T10:27:31Z")

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I tried to install scRUBYt with absolutely no success and installed a  
whole load of crap in the process. Is there any way to simply revert  
the  
state of my gems to some time before the madness? Do I have to resort  
to  
uninstalling Ruby and formatting my hard drive?  
Thank you…

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By the way, has anyone else tried to use scRUBY on a win32 system?
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**Author:** ![maz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@maz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maz)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 10:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-foolishly-used-gems-how-do-i-reset-it-all/119028/2 "2007-11-02T10:52:39Z")

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Just Another Victim of the Ambient M. wrote:

> ```
> I tried to install scRUBYt with absolutely no success and installed a 
> 
> ```
> 
> whole load of crap in the process. Is there any way to simply revert the  
> state of my gems to some time before the madness? Do I have to resort to  
> uninstalling Ruby and formatting my hard drive?  
> Thank you…
> 
> ```
> By the way, has anyone else tried to use scRUBY on a win32 system? 
> 
> ```

Oh yeah, a lot of people tried it, with varying degrees of success:

[http://agora.scrubyt.org/forums/3/topics/60](http://agora.scrubyt.org/forums/3/topics/60)  
[http://wiki.scrubyt.org/index.php?title=Installation\_Instructions#Windows\_Instructions](http://wiki.scrubyt.org/index.php?title=Installation_Instructions#Windows_Instructions)

I think the first, somewhat reliable method was installing it on cygwin

[http://wiki.scrubyt.org/index.php?title=Installation\_Instructions#Windows\_CygWin\_Instructions](http://wiki.scrubyt.org/index.php?title=Installation_Instructions#Windows_CygWin_Instructions)

The real breakthrough on win32 should be jscRUBYt! (scRUBYt! on JRuby)  
which should make the installation pretty deterministic and working:

[http://scrubyt.org/announcing-jscrubyt-no-more-win32-problems/](http://scrubyt.org/announcing-jscrubyt-no-more-win32-problems/)  
[http://agora.scrubyt.org/forums/3/topics/234](http://agora.scrubyt.org/forums/3/topics/234)

Unfortunately I am not on win32 so I can’t really help you - however I  
know a lot of people who installed it, so it’s definitely possible.

Cheers,  
Peter

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