Installing Ruby for Windows
Ruby isn’t available as a default option in Windows the way it’s in Unix distributions or MacOS, but it can be installed and used and can interact with the underlying environment to automate Windows-specific resources.
We’re going to focus on two ways to install Ruby on Windows: using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)[11], which allows you to run a Linux command-line terminal in your Windows system, and using RubyInstaller[12] to install a Windows application that lets you execute Ruby programs.
The two different kinds of Ruby can both be installed on the same machine and have different purposes. Using WSL gives you a command shell that’s effectively a Linux distribution, allowing you to seamlessly use any of ...
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