# Sake error on Windows

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sake-error-on-windows/109523>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 16, 2007, 12:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sake-error-on-windows/109523 "2007-07-16T12:01:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anildigital)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 12:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sake-error-on-windows/109523/1 "2007-07-16T12:01:42Z")

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I have installed sake (gem install sake) on Windows machine. Now  
whenever I  
run sake on Windows, I get following error/message

Define INLINEDIR or HOME in your environment and try again

I googled about it and could not find that solved this problem.

Anybody have an idea how to solve this?

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Don’t live to geek; geek to live.  
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**Author:** ![anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anildigital)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sake-error-on-windows/109523/2 "2007-07-16T16:05:25Z")

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Set your home environment. You can do it at the commandline:

set HOME = c:\

That only works as long as that console window is open.

For a more permanent solution, you can do it via the environment  
settings  
(right click My Computer, choose Properties, choose “advanced” tab,  
select  
“Environment Variables” and create a new UJser variable. Make the name  
HOME and the value c:\

You will not need to restart your computer but you will need to close  
any  
open console windows for those changes to take effect

That should help. (Not tested, but I know for a fact that the ZenTest  
gem  
makes you do the same thing on Windows.)

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**Author:** ![anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anildigital)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 8:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sake-error-on-windows/109523/3 "2007-07-17T08:21:01Z")

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yes, I did

set HOME = c:\

from command prompt in Windows. It still gives me the same error. ☹

Anil

On 7/16/07, Brian H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> “Environment Variables” and create a new UJser variable. Make the name
> 
> > –  
> > Don’t live to geek; geek to live.  
> > [http://anilwadghule.com/blog](http://anilwadghule.com/blog)
> 
> >

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> **[Anil Wadghule](https://anilwadghule.com)**
>
> Anil Wadghule - Elixir, Phoenix Software Developer