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Ruby

Colin Stodd
Colin Stodd
3,160 Points
Posted by Colin Stodd
Colin Stodd
3,160 Points

Trouble Installing ruby gems on Windows irb

I'm going through the "Hashes" tutorials, and when installing the: require 'rubygems' I get a false answer. I've installed it via git (installed ruby on rails before signing up), but I keep getting errors when using: gem 'awesome_print' as well.

2 Answers

Jason Seifer
STAFF
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey Colin Stodd when you require rubygems that will generally return false. It doesn't necessarily mean that RubyGems hasn't been required in to your session. Try moving on after that and see if you still get errors.

Also, in order to use "awesome_print" try installing that as a gem first:

gem install awesome_print

Then follow along with the lessons.

Colin Stodd
Colin Stodd
3,160 Points
Colin Stodd
Colin Stodd
3,160 Points

Thanks for your reply Jason. I'll give it a try. Although, I recently installed Ubuntu, and I can now follow along nicely :) I think I'm just going to stick to the UNIX route, but hopefully this helps someone in the future.