# Pik 0.2.7 Released

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**Created:** [June 17, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pik-0-2-7-released/190253 "2010-06-17T16:22:30Z")\
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pik version 0.2.7 has been released!

- [http://github.com/vertiginous/pik](http://github.com/vertiginous/pik)
- \<Mailing List: [http://groups.google.com/group/discuss\_pik](http://groups.google.com/group/discuss_pik)\>
- \<Rubyforge: [http://rubyforge.org/projects/pik/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/pik/)\>
- \<Bugs/Feature requests: [Issues · vertiginous/pik · GitHub](http://github.com/vertiginous/pik/issues)\>
- 

Pik is a tool to manage multiple versions of ruby on Windows.

```
>pik help commands

  add Adds another ruby location to pik.
  benchmark|bench Runs bencmarks with all versions that pik is aware 

```

of.  
checkup|cu Checks your environment for current Ruby best  
practices.  
config Adds/modifies configuration options.  
default Switches back to the default settings.  
gem Runs the gem command with all versions that pik  
is aware of.  
gemsync Synchronizes gems from the version specified to  
the current version.  
help Displays help information.  
implode Removes your pik configuration.  
info Displays information about the current ruby  
version.  
install|in Downloads and installs different ruby versions.  
list|ls Lists ruby versions that pik is aware of.  
rake Runs the rake command with all versions that pik  
is aware of.  
remove|rm Removes a ruby location from pik.  
ruby|rb Runs ruby with all versions that pik is aware of.  
run Runs command with all versions of ruby that pik  
is aware of.  
switch|sw|use Switches ruby versions based on patterns.  
tag Adds the given tag to the current version.  
tags Runs the pik command against the given tags.  
uninstall|unin Deletes a ruby version from the filesystem and  
removes it from Pik.  
update|up updates pik.

```
For help on a particular command, use 'pik help COMMAND'.

```

You can install pik via rubygems, or the Windows installer.

=== Install pik using rubygems

```
>gem install pik
...

Successfully installed pik-0.2.6
1 gem installed

```

After the gem is installed, you can use the ‘pik\_install’ script to  
install the pik executable. Install pik to a location that’s in your  
path, but someplace other than your ruby\bin dir. For instance, the  
directory C:\bin is in my path:

```
>path
PATH=c:\bin;C:\Program Files\Windows Resource

```

Kits\Tools;c:\ruby\Ruby-186-p383\bin;

So I run:

```
>pik_install C:\bin
Thank you for using pik.

Installing to C:\bin

...

pik is installed

```

=== Install pik using the installer

If you want to install to a machine that doesn’t have Ruby installed  
yet, you can download the latest msi file from  
github[[http://github.com/vertiginous/pik/downloads](http://github.com/vertiginous/pik/downloads)]. Or, just run:

```
>msiexec /i 

```

[http://github.com/downloads/vertiginous/pik/pik-n.n.n.msi](http://github.com/downloads/vertiginous/pik/pik-n.n.n.msi)

If you install to a directory that’s not in your path, you’ll need to  
add it to the path yourself. Microsoft has good  
instructions[[How To Manage Environment Variables in Windows XP - Microsoft Support](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310519)] on that. After  
that, you should be ready to run pik.

- If this is a first-time install, look at pik add, and pik install  
to set up your environment.

- If you’re upgrading from version 0.2.6, you should be able to  
upgrade with ‘pik update’

- If you’re upgrading from a version \<= 0.1.1, you’ll want to delete  
the pik.bat file  
from all of your ruby versions. Gem uninstall should do the trick.

== Changes:

### 0.2.7 / 2010-06-15

- cleaner list output
- pik switch/use is no longer case sensitive  
‘\>pik iron’ vice ‘\>pik Iron’
- created devkit implmentation (pik install devkit)
- created devkit update command (pik devkit update) creates batch  
files if you install  
a newer version of ruby after devkit.
- added devkit config option, if you already have it installed:

> pik config devkit=c:\ruby\devkit  
> pik devkit update

- fixed Implementations::IronRuby to catch newer versions, and ignore  
ipy packages
- improved pik\_install instructions
- pik\_install displays usage message when no argument is given
- fixed some bugs in info command
- fixed pik.bat to run in tcc/le
- removed RubyGems dependency ( the executable was causing weird  
errors with plugins)
- fixed Implementations::Ruby to catch RC1 7z files
- fixed regression in version option