Installing Ruby on a windows box with only SSH access

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I'm trying to run ruby on a fresh windows server. Is there a way to do this with only SSH access?

Do you mean you have sshd running on a Windows server installation? Why no Remote Desktop access?

grawity · Answer 1 · 2011-01-08 00:00:25Z

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Download Ruby Installer, run the installer with /verysilent /norestart /dir=C:\Ruby

answered Jan 8 '11 at 0:00

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	How do I download ruby installer from the command line? – Justin L. Jan 8 '11 at 2:32
	@Justin: If you have SSH, chances are you can upload it from your own PC with SFTP (using WinSCP). Otherwise, there's a command-line `ftp` client, and PowerShell (comes with Server 2008) has `System.Net.WebClient` and `System.Net.HttpWebRequest`. – grawity Jan 8 '11 at 12:12
	you can use iexpore to download it via command line - iexplore.exe blah.com/filename.zip amongst other methods superuser.com/questions/59465/… – Journeyman Geek Apr 11 '11 at 1:49
	@Journeyman: Internet Explorer requires a graphical session to work. SSH doesn't have that, at least not on Windows. – grawity Apr 11 '11 at 9:38

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