# Ruby suddenly stoped working

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-suddenly-stoped-working/137222>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [May 10, 2008, 9:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-suddenly-stoped-working/137222 "2008-05-10T09:41:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 10, 2008, 9:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-suddenly-stoped-working/137222/1 "2008-05-10T09:41:33Z")

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I am new to ruby. Installed v 1.8.6 with rubygems 1.0.9 yesterday, 9  
May. Everything was working last night but stopped today when i booted  
my laptop. Running vista ultimate.

The ‘ruby’ command is not recognised.  
I’ve checked the environmental variable and is set: c:\ruby\bin. Also  
RUBYOPT="-rubygems" is also set. Please help. Thank you.