drphil.rb - Voting Bot - Windows Installation

For these steps, we will install the cygwin package manager, which will provide the support packages and dependencies we need.

https://cygwin.com/

We need cygwin to install git, ruby-dev, gem, and make for us. Run its setup and take all of the defaults, clicking Next until you reach the Select Packages dialog. Select the View option of Full. Search for:

• git and find the package named: git: Distributed version control. Change Skip to 2.12.2-1 (or later).
• ruby-dev and find the package named: ruby-devel: Interpreted object-oriented scripting language. Change Skip to 2.3.3-1 (or later).
• gem and find the package named: rubygem: Ruby module management. Change Skip to 2.3.3-1 (or later).
• make and find the package named: make: The GNU version of the 'make' utility. Change Skip to 4.2.1-1 (or later).

Click Next until cygwin is done installing these packages.

Open the Cygwin Terminal

Now, we can continue with the usual install:

$ git clone https://gist.github.com/61bcc2b821aa5acb24f7fc88921950c7.git drphil
$ cd drphil
$ bundle install

Then run it:

$ ruby drphil.rb

To configure drphil, you will need to modify the drphil.yml which will be located in:

C:\cygwin\home\<username>\drphil