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Ruby Installer for Windows Bundler: The best way to manage a Ruby application's gems
DevKit for Windows

  • If Ruby is not installed on your system, download and install from here:
    Select Language > accept license > tick box beside Add Ruby executables to your PATH > Install > Finish
  • Installing DevKit for Windows isn't absolutely necessary, but suggested. The link above outlines the installation process.
  • Once Ruby is installed, open your command line terminal:
>ruby -v
ruby 2.3.3p222 (2016-11-21 revision 56859) [x64-mingw32]        ## indicates installed

>gem install rubygems-update                                    ## install rubygems-update
Fetching: rubygems-update-2.6.8.gem (100%)
Successfully installed rubygems-update-2.6.8
Parsing documentation for rubygems-update-2.6.8
Installing ri documentation for rubygems-update-2.6.8
Done installing documentation for rubygems-update after 38 seconds
1 gem installed
                                 
>gem update                                                     ## updates gems installed with Ruby
  • Next, install Sass, Bourbon, Bitters and Neat. Note that newer versions of Bourbon and Bitters don't match the Docs at http://bourbon.io/. Specific versions of Bourbon and Bitters that play well together are installed here until Bourbon 5 is out of beta:
>>gem install sass
Successfully installed sass-3.4.23
Parsing documentation for sass-3.4.23
Done installing documentation for sass after 4 seconds
1 gem installed

>gem install bourbon --version 4.2.7
Fetching: thor-0.19.4.gem (100%)
Successfully installed thor-0.19.4
Fetching: bourbon-4.2.7.gem (100%)
Successfully installed bourbon-4.2.7
Parsing documentation for thor-0.19.4
Installing ri documentation for thor-0.19.4
Parsing documentation for bourbon-4.2.7
Installing ri documentation for bourbon-4.2.7
Done installing documentation for thor, bourbon after 2 seconds
2 gems installed

>gem install bitters --version 1.2.0
Fetching: bitters-1.2.0.gem (100%)
Successfully installed bitters-1.2.0
Parsing documentation for bitters-1.2.0
Installing ri documentation for bitters-1.2.0
1 gems installed

>gem install neat
Fetching: neat-1.8.0.gem (100%)
Successfully installed neat-1.8.0
Parsing documentation for neat-1.8.0
Installing ri documentation for neat-1.8.0
Done installing documentation for neat after 0 seconds
1 gem installed

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