Getting the Tools You’ll Need
This book contains recipes for Ruby, Java, C#, PHP, Scala, Clojure, Erlang, and more. Cucumber-Ruby is the original and most popular flavor of Cucumber, so several of our recipes use Ruby. Most of these will run across a variety of Ruby implementations, but we recommend version 1.9 unless otherwise noted in the ingredients.
On Mac and Linux systems, we recommend a managed Ruby environment such as RVM[3] or rbenv.[4] These tools make it easy to install Ruby and its dependencies. Both of these tools require a C compiler. Mac users will need to install the Xcode Command-Line Tools;[5] Ubuntu users should run sudo apt-get install build-essential.
For Windows, we suggest the RubyInstaller project[6] and its DevKit ...
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