# Ruby on Rails Installation - Standalone

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-installation-standalone/145400>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 8, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-installation-standalone/145400 "2008-08-08T19:41:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-installation-standalone/145400/1 "2008-08-08T19:41:29Z")

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Hello Everyone,

I am a newbie to ruby. Can someone post a step by step standalone  
installtion of ruby on rails in windows as well as ubuntu . This is my  
first day with ruby. any help is highly appriciated

Thanks,  
Avy

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-installation-standalone/145400/2 "2008-08-08T19:44:24Z")

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Avy wrote:

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For windows use InstantRails, that’s probably the fastest way to get  
running with RoR on that OS. I would follow the setup guide in the Wiki  
for Ubuntu.

Jeff

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-installation-standalone/145400/3 "2008-08-09T00:55:14Z")

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For ubuntu:

Open synaptic and install ruby and rubygems (you might also want to  
install mysql for database). Open terminal and execute ‘gem install  
rails --include-dependencies’. That’s all, you have rails installed.

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-installation-standalone/145400/4 "2008-08-09T19:23:59Z")

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1. For Windows - InstantRails is a no brainer. Though, you should  
know that the current release of InstantRails has Rails 2.0.2 and not  
Rails 2.1.0. Upgrading to Rails 2.1.0 may be less than trivial for a  
new Rails user.
2. Ubuntu - The following link should help you:  
[http://www.rubyhead.com/category/tutorial/](http://www.rubyhead.com/category/tutorial/)  
HTH.  
Bharat