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Ruby

Posted by Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Ruby Install

Hi everyone!

Im just getting going with Sass, and need to install Ruby on my PC. I began watching Jason's Vid for installing Ruby and there seems to be a lot of newer versions since this tutorial and my little concern is the Dev Kit...

The latest Ruby was 2.2.1 and the Latest Dev kit says its for versions up to 2.1

Should I download a slightly earlier version of ruby like 2.1.5 so I can follow along with the vids better by downloading the matching dev kit or should i just download the latest version of Ruby and no Dev Kit?

Thanks to anyone who can clear this up for me :)

1 Answer

James Home
James Home
12,011 Points
James Home
James Home
12,011 Points

For this case it wouldn't matter too much if you had a later version than shown in the videos because the Sass syntax won't be that different because you are upgrading Ruby, rather than Sass itself.

Get the latest stable build of Ruby and Node.

NB: I gave up on using a Windows PC and now typically use a Unix based OS like OSX or Linux for web development. I'd advise doing the same and just install Ubuntu.

Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Thanks James :)