# Installation options for rails?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-options-for-rails/191933>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 20, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-options-for-rails/191933 "2010-07-20T23:35:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-options-for-rails/191933/1 "2010-07-20T23:35:48Z")

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i am running windows vista and am working on the download of ruby and  
rails…so heres what i just did …I downloaded and installed  
ruby 1.9.1-p429  
then I downloaded and installed rubygems 1.3.7 …my next  
question: would it be better to install rails through the command  
line? or to download it as a standalone package?

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-options-for-rails/191933/2 "2010-07-21T02:26:11Z")

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hi Rich,

since you already have ruby and rubygems up and running, the only  
reason IMO you should not prefer the command line would be that you  
don’t have internet connection (and then you have to dowload packages  
on another computer).

there will certainly (and rapidly) be a module or tool that you’ll  
want to use in your app that isn’t already packaged, so you’ll have no  
other solution than the command line.

for windows users (as i used to be myself), the command line looks  
like the old wash-machine of your grand-mother :  
rustic, not sexy, has been…  
but everyone knows those machines never brake, and wash better 🙂  
so there it is : the command line wash whiter 😉

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-options-for-rails/191933/3 "2010-07-22T20:31:21Z")

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Rich d wrote:

> i am running windows vista and am working on the download of ruby and  
> rails…so heres what i just did …I downloaded and installed  
> ruby 1.9.1-p429  
> then I downloaded and installed rubygems 1.3.7 …my next  
> question: would it be better to install rails through the command  
> line? or to download it as a standalone package?

Using Windows for Rails development isn’t a great idea, but I gather  
(never having done it myself, so take this for what it’s worth) that  
most Windows Rails developers use InstantRails. But you’ll be a lot  
happier if you can set up a \*nix VM (perhaps Jerome’s VirtualRails will  
do the trick) or get a Mac.

## Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser  
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
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