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Development Tools Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing Ruby on Windows

Posted by qasimalbaqali
qasimalbaqali
17,839 Points

Can't install Ruby

I am getting the error Invalid configurations or no rubies.... I installed Ruby 200 x64 because that's what my computer is (x64) and then installed it same as the video and no issues. Extracted the devkit inside /Ruby200/devkit and no problems either. When I get to the cmd I started getting the problems.

DevKit enables you to build many of the available native
RubyGems that don't yet have a binary gem.

Usage: ruby dk.rb COMMAND [options]

where COMMAND is one of:

  init     prepare DevKit for installation
  review   review DevKit install plan
  install  install required DevKit executables

and 'install' [options] are:

  -f, --force  overwrite existing helper scripts

C:\Ruby200\devkit>ruby dk.rb init

Initialization complete! Please review and modify the auto-generated
'config.yml' file to ensure it contains the root directories to all
of the installed Rubies you want enhanced by the DevKit.

C:\Ruby200\devkit>ruby dk.rb install
Invalid configuration or no Rubies listed. Please fix 'config.yml'
and rerun 'ruby dk.rb install'

C:\Ruby200\devkit>ruby dk.rb install -f
Invalid configuration or no Rubies listed. Please fix 'config.yml'
and rerun 'ruby dk.rb install'

C:\Ruby200\devkit>
Codye Watson
Codye Watson
16,835 Points

Hello Qasim,

I had the same problem and found this on stack overflow.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20810653/how-do-i-configure-config-yml-so-that-i-can-install-devkit

Hope this helps!

Thank you,