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Ruby Ruby Foundations Ruby Basics Installing Ruby

Mikeal Abramoff
Mikeal Abramoff
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Mikeal Abramoff
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What is the Terminal

In this video at Min 4:00 the instructor just goes straight into pasting in a terminal. What is a terminal. I haven't used one before.

Is it related to the osx.gcc-installer that was just downloaded?

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Randy Perez
Randy Perez
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Randy Perez
Randy Perez
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Depends on your operating system but if you are on windows is just the CMD or in a MAC the name is TERMINAL

Joe Schultz
Joe Schultz
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Joe Schultz
Joe Schultz
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It is also called the Console. Check out Console Foundations in the library to get up to speed on what it is and how it works.