I’ve coded up some Ruby web applications, eg. little Sinatra apps / prototypes, for some developer friends of mine who are on Windows and haven’t used Ruby before.

I wanted to show how easy it is to get up and running with Ruby quickly on Windows.

NOTE: this isn’t the prefered way to do Ruby development on Windows, in my opinion. Instead, I personally think you should use Cygwin. But, if you just want to get a Ruby app up and running and you won’t be doing too much development, this should work fine for you.

In this video I show you how to:

• Download and Install Ruby on Windows
• Install some RubyGems
• Create and run a simple Sinatra application
• Download a Sinatra application from GitHub and run it

I don’t show you how to get git up and running on Windows, because I prefer Cygwin for doing that.

If you want to see howto get up and running with Ruby, RubyGems, git and more on Windows, checkout out my next screencast: Ruby on Windows: Cygwin, Git, Rxvt, and more