This install guide will help you manually install and configure ruby-web with a web server on Microsoft Windows. Although we distribute a ruby-web installer for Microsoft Windows, you might want to take to setup ruby-web yourself as this will provide you with a better understanding of the system.

To get started you'll need to download the tar.gz distribution from the downloads page at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=873. If you have not already done so, you will need to install the Ruby One Click installer in the directory of your choice. You may choose a different location but do not have spaces in the path (like C:\Program Files\Ruby) as some web servers will crash properly if you do.

Extract the archive (using a program like Winzip) . From the command line, execute these commands:

  ruby.exe install.rb config
  ruby.exe install.rb setup
  ruby.exe install.rb install
  

If you're using NTFS on Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003, make sure that the user running the web server has read permissions to your ruby lib directories (e.g. make c:/ruby/bin and c:/ruby/lib readable by Everyone).

ruby-web is now setup on your system. The next step is to configure your webserver to run ruby-web.