Ruby installation winders PATH issue

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Hello I’ve installed ruby from the one click installer on a windows xp
home ed laptop. Everything works ok if I call ruby directly
c:\ruby\bin\ruby. However ruby is not making it to my path. This is
probably more of a windows problem, but perhaps someone can help. Here’s
a capture of what I have…

C:>ruby\bin\ruby -v
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-mswin32]
C:>ruby
‘ruby’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:>path
PATH=
C:\ruby\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\ruby;C:\ruby\lib;C:\ruby\freeride;

Thanks for your assistance.
Ray

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On 1/20/07, Ray H. [email protected] wrote:

‘ruby’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:>path
PATH=

C:\ruby\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\ruby;C:\ruby\lib;C:\ruby\freeride;

It looks like you path is starting with a CR or LF character. This would
have the effect of making the first path in the list invalid (which
happens
to be the ruby\bin path). Get rid of the extra character from your path
and
things should start working better.

Curt

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Ray H. wrote:

operable program or batch file.
C:>path
PATH=
C:\ruby\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\ruby;C:\ruby\lib;C:\ruby\freeride;

Thanks for your assistance.
Ray

By any chance are you using a command shell that was open before you
installed Ruby? You’ll need to open a new one for the shell to pick up
the path changes.

Otherwise, I dunno what to tell you.

Dan