# Ruby on Windows beyong 1.8.6 how to install?

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 18, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-windows-beyong-1-8-6-how-to-install/165864 "2009-04-18T18:31:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![winterheat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7993a0/32.png) [@winterheat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/winterheat)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-windows-beyong-1-8-6-how-to-install/165864/1 "2009-04-18T18:31:14Z")

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on page

[http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/)

for Ruby 1.8.7 and beyond, there is no one-click installer, so how do we  
install it? by unzipping it and setting some path in autoexec.bat or  
something like that? is there a page to explain it? thanks.

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**Author:** ![winterheat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7993a0/32.png) [@winterheat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/winterheat)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-windows-beyong-1-8-6-how-to-install/165864/2 "2009-04-18T21:41:34Z")

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SpringFlowers AutumnMoon wrote:

> on page
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> [Download Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/)
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> for Ruby 1.8.7 and beyond, there is no one-click installer, so how do we  
> install it? by unzipping it and setting some path in autoexec.bat or  
> something like that? is there a page to explain it? thanks.

Good question. Currently you’d need to download the executables and a  
few “helper” dll’s and put them all in the same folder and run it.

Or download luis’ one click installer

> **[GitHub - oneclick/rubyinstaller: RubyInstaller for Windows - Build recipes](https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/tree/master)**
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> master

then run rake ruby19  
then look in the sandbox/ruby\_mingw folder for an install.  
Cheers!  
-=r

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**Author:** ![winterheat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7993a0/32.png) [@winterheat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/winterheat)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-windows-beyong-1-8-6-how-to-install/165864/3 "2009-04-19T16:45:37Z")

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Roger P. wrote:

> Or download luis’ one click installer  
> [GitHub - oneclick/rubyinstaller: RubyInstaller for Windows - Build recipes](http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/tree/master)

thanks… how would it be if i use the Ruby 1.8.6’s one click installer,  
and then unzip Ruby 1.8.7 or Ruby 1.9, and just copy all folder and  
files to the c:\ruby folder that was for 1.8.6? thanks.

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**Author:** ![winterheat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7993a0/32.png) [@winterheat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/winterheat)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 9:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-windows-beyong-1-8-6-how-to-install/165864/4 "2009-04-20T09:05:47Z")

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SpringFlowers AutumnMoon wrote:

> Roger P. wrote:
> 
> > Or download luis’ one click installer  
> > [GitHub - oneclick/rubyinstaller: RubyInstaller for Windows - Build recipes](http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/tree/master)
> 
> thanks… how would it be if i use the Ruby 1.8.6’s one click installer,  
> and then unzip Ruby 1.8.7 or Ruby 1.9, and just copy all folder and  
> files to the c:\ruby folder that was for 1.8.6? thanks.

yeah that would work I think.  
-=r