From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-01-21T22:50:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby installation winders PATH issue


Ray Herbig 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;
>
>
> Thanks for your assistance.
> Ray

By any chance are you using a command shell that was open before you
installed Ruby? You'll need to open a new one for the shell to pick up
the path changes.

Otherwise, I dunno what to tell you.

Dan