[Tutor] Trying Ruby...

Premshree Pillai premshree.pillai at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 08:54:09 CEST 2005


I have Python and Ruby -- not ActiveState -- installed on an XP box. No issues.

On 6/7/05, Terry Carroll <carroll at tjc.com> wrote:
> This message is not as off-topic as it at first appears.
> 
> I'm a user of Activestate's ActivePython under Windows/XP.  I want to give
> Ruby a spin, just for the heck of it.  I vaguely recall a post a few
> months ago, I don't know if it was in this forum, where someone had a
> problem in Python, and it turns out it was because a Ruby install messed
> with some setting, perhaps in the Windows registry.
> 
> I can be more vague upon request.
> 
> Anyway, I'd like to install Ruby, but want to make very sure I don't
> impair my Python environment.  Is there anything anyone can point to to
> ensure this?
> 
> Any suggestions on the safest Ruby to install would also be appreciated.
> 
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