# Migrating from InstantRails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/migrating-from-instantrails/119494>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 7, 2007, 12:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/migrating-from-instantrails/119494 "2007-11-07T12:57:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![mindmage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@mindmage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mindmage)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 12:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/migrating-from-instantrails/119494/1 "2007-11-07T12:57:24Z")

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Hi!  
I’ve been using InstantRails for some time now, but now it has become  
necessary to run ruby scripts from places other than the InstantRails  
console window.  
Can i make ruby aviable system-wide without going the long way and  
installing the ‘proper’ version over again? Like setting some  
environment variables?  
Thanks in advance 🙂

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**Author:** ![mindmage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@mindmage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mindmage)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 1:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/migrating-from-instantrails/119494/2 "2007-11-08T01:55:26Z")

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Via InstantRails FAQ, located on  
[http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?FAQ](http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?FAQ)

A: Yes ! It can be a hassle to get all the right stuff going on rails,  
instant rails makes it easy to have multiple rails versions. You can  
always add /ruby/bin to your path, and start up rails apps as normal  
too.

Simply adding ruby\bin to the Windows PATH does work, but doesn’t  
provide a full Ruby development environment. It is missing the file  
associations that invoke Ruby on .rb[w] files, does not have Windows  
Start Menu entries for the SciTE editor and the FreeRIDE IDE, doesn’t  
have the custom icons for .rb[w] files, and does not create the  
RUBYOPT=rubygems environment variable needed to make rubygems part of  
your system.

To rectify this, do the following:

Temporarily rename the directory …\InstantRails\ruby to something  
else (like …\InstantRails\ruby-save).  
Install the [One-Click Ruby Installer] at …\InstantRails\ruby.  
Now that you’ve got all the nifty system mods, delete the directory …  
\InstantRails\ruby and rename …\InstantRails\ruby-save back to its  
original name.