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After a failure trying to install Ruby on Rails from here: http://railsinstaller.org/, I am now trying to install things manually.

I thought I would install Pik first and then hit "pik install ruby" from the command prompt. Seemingly, nothing could be simpler than that. However, I am receiving the message "Ruby not found". How could this be?

sawa
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  • Have you set `pik` in your environment variables? – siame Jan 23 '13 at 01:06
  • The installation mentioned that it added pik to my Path. Anyways, do you mean adding pik to my path (in some other way) or setting up a new environmental variable or changing "home" or something? How would I do that...exactly? – user1971506 Jan 23 '13 at 01:54
  • In the docs it says: `If you install pik using the msi you must set the ‘HOME’ or ‘PIK_HOME’ environment variable to the directory pik installs to, ususally the path specified in %USERPROFILE%.` – siame Jan 23 '13 at 18:23
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    @sawa ever figure this out? The pik msi added c:\pik to the system PATH variable for me but I went ahead and added PIK_HOME to my user variables and this changes nothing. Which makes sense because the system is not having an issue finding pik. It is saying it can't find Ruby which doesn't exist at this point. You are correct that the install instructions imply you can run pik install to install your first ruby but I believe you have to actually have a version of ruby installed already for this. Which makes it silly to install pik on a system that doesn't have ruby installed – isimmons Jun 19 '13 at 02:59

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While the pik gem is no longer maintained, pik from here is still the best way to manage multiple ruby versions on windows. (Please someone write another one. Or talk Gordon Thiesfeld into letting someone else manage it.)

Setting up pik is painful (you are require to manually install the ruby versions, the required devkits and then tell pik to use them).

If you don't need multiple, ruby versions, I recommend you use the excellent installers from here and use gem install rails to get your windows, ruby on rails fix.

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it seems Pik cannot install Ruby automatically. It's just manager of ruby versions. In order to install Ruby on Windows it's necessary to use RubyInstaller for Windows http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ and then pik add C:\Ruby193\bin (or any other path to installed ruby)

Konstantin Pogrebnoy
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