HOW TO guide for setting up your Windows XP system to run ruby code, installing rails, and SQlite database so you can be off developing ruby on rails applications.

1. Ruby on Windows Tim Golden http://TimGolden.com http://twitter.com/Goldeneye 1

2. History Cygwin Source Files NotePad

3. Choices Easy Ruby installer http://rubyinstaller.org/ Hard Development Kit/ Build from source http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/ 3

4. Installing Ruby The one click installer does all the work for you  4

5. Installer Location 5

6. Installer Finish 6

8. Gem Install Using a command prompt in your c:uby dir > gem update –-system > gem list –-local To see what’s installed > gem install “pkg”

9. SQLite Precompiled Binaries For Windows section http://www.sqlite.org/download.html sqlitedll-3_6_23.zip – you can think of this one as actually being the SQLite database that you will install on your machine sqlite-3_6_23.zip –a command line utility that can be used to administer a SQLite database Unzip them and put the extracted files in your rubyin directory (usually at C:ubyin).

10. SQLite From a command prompt in your C:uby dir > gem install sqlite3-ruby SQLite/Ruby FAQ – all the different ways to use sqlite from a Ruby script 11

11. Credits Tim Golden – aka Golden~Eye~ http://www.TimGolden.com http://twitter.com/GoldenEye RubyForge - http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/ RubyInstaller - http://rubyinstaller.org/ Ruby On Windows - http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com RubyGems - http://rubygems.org/ SQLite - http://www.sqlite.org -- http://sqlite-ruby.rubyforge.org/sqlite3/faq.html Ruby Stack - http://bitnami.org/stack/rubystack Notepad ++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm Netbeans - http://netbeans.org/projects/ruby/http://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html 12