# Ruby

Ruby can be downloaded and installed using railsinstaller. Railsinstaller is an installer for Rails and all it dependencies on windows.

Railsinstaller will install Ruby with some other packages:

# Download

Railsinstaller can be downloaded from railsinstaller.org (opens new window) Select Ruby 2.3 or higher.

Railsinstaller website

Railsinstaller Setup - License Agreement

In the last step, uncheck 'Configure git and ssh when installation has completed'. Git and SSH should already be configured from previous courses.

Completing the Railsinstaller Setup Wizard

You should then test if everything is installed successfully by opening powershell and typing the following command:

ruby --version

You should get the installed version if everything is ok.

ruby 2.3.3p222 (2016-11-21 revision 56859) [i386-mingw32]

Check version in PowerShell