Installation noob

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Hi all,
   I am attempting to get ruby and some gems up and working but am a
total noob to ruby.
    First could someone clear up these basic questions:
          when using the "gem update --system" "gem install watir" the
command line says gem is not recognized as an internal or external
command???
          where do I navigate to before I type that command?
and to scrape an ajax web site (which is what I want to do) is
firewatir the gem I need?
Thx in advance... more questions to come

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Eric Stevens wrote:

command line says gem is not recognized as an internal or external
command???
          where do I navigate to before I type that command?

You don't have rubygems installed - so you need to install it. The best
way to do that depends on what platform you are on. (Windows? OSX?
Linux? Which version?)

For example: Ubuntu Linux normally would be "sudo apt-get install
rubygems"

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The error messages implies you are using Windows.

Perhaps you don't have the Ruby/bin dir (where the gem executable is) in
your PATH environment variable?

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On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Eric Stevens <skyjunkie18@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi all,
  I am attempting to get ruby and some gems up and working but am a
total noob to ruby.
   First could someone clear up these basic questions:
         when using the "gem update --system" "gem install watir" the
command line says gem is not recognized as an internal or external
command???
         where do I navigate to before I type that command?
and to scrape an ajax web site (which is what I want to do) is
firewatir the gem I need?
Thx in advance... more questions to come
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Sebi