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**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-subject/66843>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 29, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-subject/66843 "2006-08-29T19:07:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![mer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@mer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mer)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-subject/66843/1 "2006-08-29T19:07:57Z")

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Hi I am new to ruby,  
Does anyone know how to install ruby on Cygwin?

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**Author:** ![mer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@mer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mer)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 7:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-subject/66843/2 "2006-08-29T19:35:15Z")

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Meredith L. wrote:

> Hi I am new to ruby,  
> Does anyone know how to install ruby on Cygwin?

Just choose ‘install’ for it in Cygwin’s installer.

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**Author:** ![mer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@mer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mer)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-subject/66843/3 "2006-08-29T19:40:04Z")

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On 8/29/06, Meredith L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Hi I am new to ruby,  
> Does anyone know how to install ruby on Cygwin?

Yes. Use the packages they provide or build from source.

Better yet, don’t use Cygwin.

-a

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**Author:** ![mer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@mer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mer)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 5:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-subject/66843/4 "2006-08-30T05:54:01Z")

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Austin Z. wrote:

> On 8/29/06, Meredith L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> 
> > Hi I am new to ruby,  
> > Does anyone know how to install ruby on Cygwin?
> 
> Yes. Use the packages they provide or build from source.
> 
> Better yet, don’t use Cygwin.
> 
> -a

I just updated CygWin this afternoon and it is now carrying Ruby 1.8.5.  
So there’s little need to build from source unless you’re into doing  
that. 🙂

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**Author:** ![mer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@mer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mer)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 3:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-subject/66843/5 "2006-08-30T03:37:13Z")

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Austin Z. wrote:

> Better yet, don’t use Cygwin.

Nothing wrong with Cygwin. Unless you want decent performance, or  
non-weird behaviour, or being able to run non-cygwin console programs  
with doskey command completion, or…

Hmm.

Oh.

That aside, I keep it around on my work box for the zero-effort  
installation of random crap^H^Heature comforts. Like bash for a shell  
with non-stupid tab completion, and locate, which I couldn’t live  
without and couldn’t get to work on Windows in any non-Cygwin variant.

David V.