From: Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@...>
Date: 2007-01-21T19:59:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby installation winders PATH issue

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On 1/20/07, Ray Herbig <whackencracker@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello I've installed ruby from the one click installer on a windows xp
> home ed laptop. Everything works ok if I call ruby directly
> c:\ruby\bin\ruby. However ruby is not making it to my path. This is
> probably more of a windows problem, but perhaps someone can help. Here's
> a capture of what I have...
>
> C:\>ruby\bin\ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-mswin32]
> C:\>ruby
> 'ruby' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> C:\>path
> PATH=
>
> C:\ruby\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\ruby;C:\ruby\lib;C:\ruby\freeride;


It looks like you path is starting with a CR or LF character. This would
have the effect of making the first path in the list invalid (which happens
to be the ruby\bin path). Get rid of the extra character from your path and
things should start working better.

Curt

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