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Ruby

Barry Cedergren
Barry Cedergren
1,042 Points

So many issues with Cmder, setting up Ruby.

I'm going through the Jason Seifer Ruby class and working along side the "Installing a Ruby on Rails Development Environment in Windows". Everything with the Cmder application gives me errors. I've looked up a few of the errors and resolved them (I think!), but I still don't see the same command prompt on mine as Jason's does.

For instance, his looks like this: C:\Users\Jason Seifer {git} {lamb}

Mine looks like: C:\users\bcede_000 (then a character that looks like the Cmder logo here)

I'm at the point of installing git by typing: -> git config --global user.name The result is an error saying "git: The term 'git' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program..."

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, so hoping somebody can help.

3 Answers

Seth Reece
Seth Reece
32,867 Points

It sounds like git is not installed. git config --global is only for setting variables on your machine like user.name and user.email. It can't be used to install git.

Barry Cedergren
Barry Cedergren
1,042 Points

I'm not sure. I'm just going step by step with Jason's video, and getting that error. I'm completely new to Ruby, command line programming, and git. I'm a Classic ASP guy trying to learn a new language that's modern, and not Windows-based. So far I'm having a heck of a time grasping the whole environment of tools, and getting these errors isn't helping :(

Seth Reece
Seth Reece
32,867 Points

Visit https://git-scm.com/ to install git. Don't get discouraged by errors. Errors are how we learn best.

Barry Cedergren
Barry Cedergren
1,042 Points

Seth,

Can you tell me which if the items on that website I need to download? There are a couple options in the Git for Windows, including: GitHub for Windows, Git Extensions, SourceTree, git-cola, and Git-Eye.

Seth Reece
Seth Reece
32,867 Points

Just grab git. The button that says "Downloads for Windows" should download it automatically.