From: Terry Poulin <bigboss64@...>
Date: 2007-10-01T00:39:23+09:00
Subject: Re: How can I uninstall Ruby?  Need to reinstall - please help!

Peter Vanderhaden wrote:
> My Ruby installation doesn't recognize "gets", among other things, so
> I'm assuming that my Ruby installation is somehow corrupt.  I'd like to
> completely remove Ruby from my Windows system, and do a clean reinstall.
> Can someone tell me the best way to remove everything Ruby from my
> system?  It doesn't show up on the add/remove programs list.  Any help
> will be GREATLY appreciated.
> PETERV
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>


You probably fragged the install or got a very bad download of the installer
if it's not in the add/remove programs menu. Assuming it was installed, there
should be a uninstall.exe in the installation directory -- add/remove programs
just front ends for running these things.


For me Ruby is installed into C:\Devel\ruby on my XP Machine, /usr/local/ on
the rest of my boxes. I think the default installation directory for Ruby on
Win32 is C:\ruby.

You might have to uninstall manually, in which case you would want to remove
<where ever you installed ruby>\bin from your %PATH% environment variable.
Delete the files in the install directory, and clean the registry manually (if
used). -- Many install programs also have a 'repair' or 'reinstall' mode,
dunno if Ruby has that feature.


TerryP.




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