# Ruby settings, path/env/lib etc

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-settings-path-env-lib-etc/99627>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 24, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-settings-path-env-lib-etc/99627 "2006-07-24T16:18:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![rube](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/c57346/32.png) [@rube](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rube)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-settings-path-env-lib-etc/99627/1 "2006-07-24T16:18:56Z")

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Hello

I just downloaded the ruby one click installer. I am on a windows  
machine with no administrator rights. I install all my personal apps to  
desktop/bin.

SciTe wouldn’t run properly until I edited the properties to point to  
the ruby interpreter; now F5 works fine to compile/run.

I also ended up finding out the hard way that I need to do  
| require ‘rubygems’  
before I could require anything else.

Still, simple examples do not work, usually failing with  
|uninitialized constant XXX (NameError)

I assume this is because the lib directory etc. could not be found.

Is there a central place where I can manually change settings?  
For example, I just found out about “$:” – is there a resource that  
discusses all the setup/settings/env-vars for ruby? (on windows?)

thanks!

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**Author:** ![rube](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/c57346/32.png) [@rube](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rube)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-settings-path-env-lib-etc/99627/2 "2006-07-24T16:27:52Z")

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Hi,

I don’t think that Desktop\bin is the best place to install something  
valuable, because it’s full path contains white spaces. In my case  
it’s: “C:\Documents and Settings\martinsgr\Desktop”

–  
Martins