Installing Ruby 1.9 on Windows

As you may already know, Ruby and Windows aren't the best of friends, but you can make it work. Here's how to quickly and easily get Ruby 1.9 up and running on windows.

1. If you already have Ruby 1.8 installed, make a backup copy of c:\ruby
2. Download pre-built Ruby 1.9 package for windows here: http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/
3. Unzip it into c:\ruby
4. If you already had Ruby 1.8 installed, you are good to go! If not, add c:\ruby\bin to your PATH environment variable.

Run ruby -v at the command line to check your version.