# Need help getting ScottKit working on ruby 3.2.8

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**Created:** [June 8, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-help-getting-scottkit-working-on-ruby-3-2-8/267751 "2025-06-08T22:37:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![kyrathasoft](https://www.ruby-forum.com/user_avatar/www.ruby-forum.com/kyrathasoft/32/3606_2.png) [@kyrathasoft](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyrathasoft)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-help-getting-scottkit-working-on-ruby-3-2-8/267751/1 "2025-06-08T22:37:15Z")

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I’m running Windows 11, and have Ruby 3.2.8 installed. I installed Scottkit via ‘gem install scottkit’.

Scottkit is a ruby-made tool for compiling and playing interactive fiction games of the Scott Adams format.

Here’s the install:

```auto
C:\repos\MyTwine\ScottKit>gem install scottkit
Using rubygems directory: C:/Users/kyrat/.gem/ruby/3.2.0
Successfully installed nokogiri-1.18.8-x64-mingw-ucrt
Successfully installed scottkit-1.6.0
Parsing documentation for nokogiri-1.18.8-x64-mingw-ucrt
Parsing documentation for scottkit-1.6.0
Done installing documentation for nokogiri, scottkit after 1 seconds
2 gems installed

```

And here is the error message when I try to run scottkit:

```auto
C:/Ruby32-x64/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems.rb:264:in `find_spec_for_exe': can't find gem scottkit (>= 0.a) with executable scottkit (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
        from C:/Ruby32-x64/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems.rb:283:in `activate_bin_path'
        from C:/repos/MyTwine/ScottKit/scottkit:36:in `<main>'

```

I find that scottkit gem (and apparently the nokogirl gem it needs) are installed here on Windows 11:

"C:\Users\kyrat.local\share\gem\ruby\3.2.0\gems"

I know next to nothing about Ruby, but it seems like Ruby expects to find scottkit somewhere other than in a user subdirectory.

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**Author:** ![ekzema](https://www.ruby-forum.com/user_avatar/www.ruby-forum.com/ekzema/32/1465_2.png) [@ekzema](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ekzema)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 8:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-help-getting-scottkit-working-on-ruby-3-2-8/267751/2 "2025-06-10T08:06:39Z")

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Remove Windows and install Linux. That’s all)))