# Ruby and cygwin: supported? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [November 22, 2005, 1:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-cygwin-supported/48584 "2005-11-22T13:20:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pascal.Sartoretti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@Pascal.Sartoretti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pascal.Sartoretti)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 1:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-cygwin-supported/48584/1 "2005-11-22T13:20:43Z")
Hello, I have tried to use ruby from the Cygwin environment under Windows. Some things work, some don’t… Is it supported? Are there any tricks? Thanks for any help Pascal Sartoretti ---
**Author:** ![Pascal.Sartoretti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@Pascal.Sartoretti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pascal.Sartoretti)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 1:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-cygwin-supported/48584/2 "2005-11-22T13:28:45Z")
Robert K. wrote: > What exactly do you mean by this? [cygwin.com](http://cygwin.com) maintains a ruby package so > in a way you can say it’s supported. I didn’t know! I just installed Ruby the “regular” way, and wanted to be able to invoque it from the Cygwin shell. > Which things didn’t work for you? For instance, when using gem: c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe: No such file or directory – /cygdrive/c/ruby/bin/gem (LoadError) I have the feeling that ruby is lost between the Windows and the Cygwin way of naming directories. Pascal ---
**Author:** ![Pascal.Sartoretti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@Pascal.Sartoretti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pascal.Sartoretti)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 1:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-cygwin-supported/48584/3 "2005-11-22T13:40:49Z")
Pascal Sartoretti wrote: > Robert K. wrote: > > > What exactly do you mean by this? [cygwin.com](http://cygwin.com) maintains a ruby > > package so in a way you can say it’s supported. > > I didn’t know! You could have easily checked. > I just installed Ruby the “regular” way, and wanted to > be able to invoque it from the Cygwin shell. I guess you better deinstall it and fetch the ruby package from cygwin. > > Which things didn’t work for you? > > For instance, when using gem: > > c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe: No such file or directory – > /cygdrive/c/ruby/bin/gem (LoadError) > > I have the feeling that ruby is lost between the Windows and the > Cygwin way of naming directories. Probably. Note that there are cygpath and File.join(). I didn’t try to use gems with cygwin yet. Cheers ``` robert ``` ---
**Author:** ![Pascal.Sartoretti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@Pascal.Sartoretti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pascal.Sartoretti)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-cygwin-supported/48584/4 "2005-11-22T14:01:03Z")
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Pascal Sartoretti wrote: > c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe: No such file or directory – /cygdrive/c/ruby/bin/gem > (LoadError) Did you install rubygems in the same way as you installed your cygwin ruby? The paths are setup with respect to the ruby you are using it with. > I have the feeling that ruby is lost between the Windows and the Cygwin way of > naming directories. They are effectively two separate installs. You probably want your .bashrc or \_bashrc to sort out the paths properly for cygwin as well. it should not be looking for ruby stuff in /cygrdrive/c/ruby because that is the C:\ruby directory that the Windows setup uses, which has ruby built against different DLL files. The default ruby install will put ruby in /usr/local/bin/ruby and so on. And ruby built from sources does not have rubygems built in. > Pascal ``` Hugh ``` ---
**Author:** ![Pascal.Sartoretti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@Pascal.Sartoretti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pascal.Sartoretti)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-cygwin-supported/48584/5 "2005-11-23T02:18:11Z")
I ran into this problem a while ago: Uninstall your native Windows version, and get the cygwin version. It’s really hard (impossible, maybe) to make the native version play nicely with cygwin. I also had to recompile Ruby from source, as one of the bundled cygwin binaries kept crashing. Jacob ---
**Author:** ![Pascal.Sartoretti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@Pascal.Sartoretti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pascal.Sartoretti)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 3:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-cygwin-supported/48584/6 "2005-11-23T03:02:25Z")
to invoke a win version of ruby from the cygwin shell, just add an alias to it in your .profile file: alias ruby=’/cygdrive/c/ruby/bin/ruby’ dave ---
**Author:** ![Pascal.Sartoretti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@Pascal.Sartoretti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pascal.Sartoretti)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-cygwin-supported/48584/7 "2005-11-23T19:03:45Z")
Awesome cool–thanks! Looks like this is a good thing too: alias irb=’/cygdrive/c/ruby/bin/irb.bat’ -Roy ---
**Author:** ![Pascal.Sartoretti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@Pascal.Sartoretti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pascal.Sartoretti)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 1:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-cygwin-supported/48584/8 "2005-11-22T13:24:44Z")
Pascal Sartoretti wrote: > Hello, > > I have tried to use ruby from the Cygwin environment under Windows. > Some things work, some don’t… Is it supported? Are there any tricks? What exactly do you mean by this? [cygwin.com](http://cygwin.com) maintains a ruby package so in a way you can say it’s supported. Which things didn’t work for you? I’m quite happy with the cygwin version most of the time. But then again, I don’t do GUI stuff… Kind regards ``` robert ```