# Installing additional patches after 186-26 on Windows

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-additional-patches-after-186-26-on-windows/162564>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 11, 2009, 1:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-additional-patches-after-186-26-on-windows/162564 "2009-03-11T13:04:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Richard\_Quadling](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@Richard\_Quadling](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Richard_Quadling)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 1:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-additional-patches-after-186-26-on-windows/162564/1 "2009-03-11T13:04:51Z")

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Hi.

I’m completely new to ruby. I’m installing Ruby to start playing with  
it.

I’ve installed the Ruby 1.8.6 One-Click Installer from  
[http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/)

I also downloaded the 2 patches; Ruby 1.8.7-p72 and Ruby 1.9.1-p0.

Should these be simply copied over the top of C:\ruby?

Or is there an installation process I’m not seeing.

Regards,

Richard Quadling.

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Quadling](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@Richard\_Quadling](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Richard_Quadling)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 1:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-additional-patches-after-186-26-on-windows/162564/2 "2009-03-11T13:20:06Z")

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Hi Richard,

Best thing I’d recommend is just to do a gem update. 1.9 is a newer  
release of ruby and not just a bug fix so not all gems will work with  
it. As you’re on Windows you’ll probably want to wait till the new  
one-click-installer has been finalised.

Gem update --system  
Gem update

Dan

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Quadling](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@Richard\_Quadling](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Richard_Quadling)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 1:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-additional-patches-after-186-26-on-windows/162564/3 "2009-03-11T13:24:12Z")

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2009/3/11 Dan W. [dbw] [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

> Hi Richard,
> 
> Best thing I’d recommend is just to do a gem update. 1.9 is a newer release of ruby and not just a bug fix so not all gems will work with it. As you’re on Windows you’ll probably want to wait till the new one-click-installer has been finalised.
> 
> Gem update --system  
> Gem update

Thank you.