# Ruby on Rails Installation - Standalone

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/ruby-on-rails-installation-standalone/33007>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [August 8, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/ruby-on-rails-installation-standalone/33007 "2008-08-08T17:25:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Avy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Avy](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Avy)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/ruby-on-rails-installation-standalone/33007/1 "2008-08-08T17:25:26Z")

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Hello Everyone,

I am a newbie to ruby. Can someone post a step by step standalone installtion of ruby on rails in windows as well as ubuntu . This is my first day with ruby. any help is highly appriciated

Thanks, Avy

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Miller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5fc32e/32.png) [@Jeff\_Miller](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Jeff_Miller)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/ruby-on-rails-installation-standalone/33007/2 "2008-08-08T17:43:41Z")

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Avy wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I am a newbie to ruby. Can someone post a step by step standalone installtion of ruby on rails in windows as well as ubuntu . This is my first day with ruby. any help is highly appriciated
> 
> Thanks, Avy
> 
> \> &nbsp;&nbsp;

For windows use InstantRails, that's probably the fastest way to get running with RoR on that OS. I would follow the setup guide in the Wiki for Ubuntu.

Jeff

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**Author:** ![Andrius\_Chamentausk1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Andrius\_Chamentausk1](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Andrius_Chamentausk1)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/ruby-on-rails-installation-standalone/33007/3 "2008-08-08T22:54:37Z")

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For ubuntu:

Open synaptic and install ruby and rubygems (you might also want to install mysql for database). Open terminal and execute 'gem install rails --include-dependencies'. That's all, you have rails installed.

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**Author:** ![Bharat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bharat](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Bharat)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/ruby-on-rails-installation-standalone/33007/4 "2008-08-09T17:22:55Z")

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1. For Windows - InstantRails is a no brainer. Though, you should know that the current release of InstantRails has Rails 2.0.2 and not Rails 2.1.0. Upgrading to Rails 2.1.0 may be less than trivial for a new Rails user. 2. Ubuntu - The following link should help you: [http://www.rubyhead.com/category/tutorial/](http://www.rubyhead.com/category/tutorial/) HTH. Bharat