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Pass cmd.exe arguments via a shortcut?

I'd like to create a shortcut to run cmd at a particular location with a few commands. I'm hoping from there I can work out how to make it a right click option to "Run my cmd commands here..." I've ...
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How do I make RubyGems install binaries to a different directory?

I'm on OS X (Snow Leopard) and all I want is for gem to put the binaries it installs into /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/bin. This doesn't seem like it should be hard, but my Google-Fu is failing me ...
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How to completely remove Ruby, Ruby gems on Mac OS X 10.6.4

Most rubyists might be shocked when they'll read this, but I'd like to know if it's possible to completely remove the Ruby framework as well as all the tools and gems that ship with Mac OS X 10.6.4. ...
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gem install rails doesn't do anything

I installed Ruby and RubyGems on Ubuntu 10.04. Ruby is version 1.8.7. Gems is version 1.3.7. When I try sudo gem install rails, nothing happens. It just hangs forever. What am I missing? Thanks!
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How to install rmagick on Ubuntu 10.04?

Here's what I've done so far: sudo apt-get install imagemagick libmagickcore-dev This did not throw any errors, so I think that ImageMagick is installed fine. Then I tried installing the gem: sudo ...
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Installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 10.04: A Living Nightmare

Update #3: Starting over from scratch, shortened this post, decided to re-install a clean copy of Ubuntu 10.04 on a VM and go through the walk-through again. So, all the steps go without a hitch. As ...
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Ruby RubyGems: Why do I always get error messages when trying to install gems?

So I always seem to get error messages when I'm installing new gems. I'm new to Ruby, Rails, and RubyGems so it makes it very frustrating. I'm not sure if I need to configure something, or if I ...
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How to install RMagick RubyGem on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard?

I am getting this error while trying to install RMagick: $ sudo gem install rmagick Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing rmagick: ERROR: Failed to ...
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no download and install progress, no error message (no text at all!) for sudo gem install merb

I'm using ruby 4.2, rubygems 1.3.5-1ubuntu2 and Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. I installed ruby and rubygems with Synaptic. Since "The gem command will output its progress while it sucks down and installs all ...
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How to configure installed Ruby and gems?

My current gem env returns: RubyGems Environment: - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.6 - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [x86_64-linux] - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /home/USERNAME/.gems - ...
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Rails: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'

So I've got a Ruby on Rails application that I am trying to run (in development) on Snow Leopard. I've got it working on my Ubuntu computer, but now I need to get my Snow Leopard environment set up. ...
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How to install the MySQL Ruby Gem on Ubuntu 9.10?

I am having a problem installing the Ruby Gem for MySQL. This is the command that I am running: sudo gem install mysql and this is the output that I'm getting: Building native extensions. This ...
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Problem installing SQLite3 RubyGem on Ubuntu

I am having a problem trying to install the SQLite3 RubyGem. Here's what I'm doing: $ sudo gem install --remote sqlite3-ruby Here's the output: Building native extensions. This could take a while....
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How to install/update Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 9.10?

I'm running Ubuntu 9.10. I am getting started with ruby on rails development and would like to make sure my system is up to date. This is what I've found out so far: $ which ruby /usr/bin/ruby $ ruby ...
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How to install rdiscount ruby gem in windows vista?

I have vista and trying to install ruby gem - 'rdiscount' and get following error...what's the answer for this? $ gem install rdiscount Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: ...
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