Installing Ruby is relatively simple. There is an install page as part of the Ruby documentation: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/installation/
While they would prefer you to have a Unix, or Unix like environment, you can scroll down to find the best way to install this language runtime software.
I personally went to the Ruby Installers section of the page, and picked the installer that worked for me.
Installing Ruby was originally found on Access 2 Learn
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Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.
Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.
He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.
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