James Nathan wrote:
> James Britt,
> 
> I am very new to Ruby programs, I am having a very hard time getting it all up loaded to my computer.

First, as a matter of etiquette, please do not reply to a post to start 
a different topic.  It's called "hijacking" and it's a bad practice.

If you need help with something, start a new topic with a short but 
clear subject line.


> it seems that most or all the files are zipped. is their anyway that you can help me out with this? I have been reading the Beginning Ruby and the Beginning Rails. butI am not sure what else to do. please help!

Those are poor books to start with.

Try The Ruby Programming Language, by David Flanagan & Yukihiro 
Matsumoto.   Or maybe Programming Ruby, by Dave Thomas.

As for installing Ruby, there may be pointers here: 
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/

If you need more help, please post a new message with specific questions 
and details of your computer; don't reply to this message.


James