# Ruby 1.8.7-p72 installation on windows

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 24, 2009, 5:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-7-p72-installation-on-windows/166346 "2009-04-24T05:51:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/2acd7d/32.png) [@newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newb)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 5:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-7-p72-installation-on-windows/166346/1 "2009-04-24T05:51:23Z")

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Hi…  
I m newb looking for help…

i want to install ruby 1.8.7 on my windows machine…

i extracted the zip file of ruby Ruby 1.8.7-p72 Binary in  
http://www.ruby-  
[lang.org/en/downloads/](http://lang.org/en/downloads/)

after that what should i do for installing ruby 1.8.7

how should i complile the ruby binary version…

Pls help me on…

Any links to guide installtion of ruby 1.8.7 binary version on  
windows…

Thanks a lot for your time

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**Author:** ![newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/2acd7d/32.png) [@newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newb)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2009, 12:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-7-p72-installation-on-windows/166346/2 "2009-05-01T12:45:39Z")

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Newb N. wrote:

> Hi…  
> I m newb looking for help…
> 
> i want to install ruby 1.8.7 on my windows machine…

I’d probably recommend the one click installer of version 1.8.6, just to  
get you started. If you _really_ want to go down the hard path then you  
could download and install the one click installer then “replace” the  
ruby.exe within it with the 1.8.7 version–i’ve never tried it but it  
might work.  
If you’d like to compile it yourself I’d suggest re posting your  
question to the rubyinstaller mailing list.  
Cheers!  
-=r