Manual installation of Ruby 1.8.7 and Rails on Windows XP

I wrote it once for myself, but I thought - “What if someone comes in handy too?”

So, install Ruby. For this you need:

1. Download binaries for Ruby 1.8.7 here: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/ . Unpack them into the desired directory (for example, in c: \ ruby ).
2. open My Computer → Properties → Advanced → Enviromental Variables , and add the following string " c: \ ruby ​​\ bin \ " to the Path variable (this depends on where you unpacked the binaries)
3. Download the zlib package here: http://www.zlib.net/zlib123-dll.zip . From it, get the file zlib1.dll , rename it to zlib.dll and place it at c: \ ruby ​​\ bin \
4. Download the iconv package here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25167&package_id=51458 . In the archive, find the file iconv.dll and copy it to the address c: \ ruby ​​\ bin \
5. Download and install the OpenSSL library from here: http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html
6. Download rubygems here: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126 . Unpack the archive, find the file setup.rb and run the command ruby setup.rb in the console

Now you need to install Rails. For this you need:

1. in the console execute the gem install rails command
2. in the console execute the command gem install sqlite3-ruby -v 1.2.3
3. Download and SQLite3 library here: http://www.sqlite.org/download.html . Unpack the sqlite3.dll file from the downloaded archive into the folder with: \ ruby ​​\ bin \

The last two points are needed in order to run the Rails application out of the box, where the use of the SQLite database is originally written in the configuration.
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Now you need to check how Rails works. For this you need:

1. in the console, execute the rails my_projects_name_with_path command (for example: " rails d: / my_blog ") - thus, we will create an empty application framework
2. go to the folder with the created skeleton and execute the ruby script / server command in the console - thus we will launch our empty Rails program
3. in your browser go to localhost: 3000
4. on the page that opens, click on the link " About your application's environment " - thus, the versions of the installed Rails should be shown

Thanks to the kind people who once answered the question about installing Ruby on the site stackoverflow.com , thereby encouraging me to understand everything in detail and write this little guide-memo.