title: Ruby not working on windows xp
body: <p>I just installed ruby on windows xp 32bit with rubyinstaller-2.0.0-p645. The installation went smoothly with no errors. I made sure to check the box that added ruby to the windows path. Here is my path:</p>
  
  <pre><code>PATH=C:\Ruby200\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, ruby does nothing at the prompt. No error message, nothing. If I go to the bin directory of the Ruby installation folder and type ruby -v for example, nothing. The prompt just returns. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the Ruby folder after install:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Directory of C:\Ruby200\bin
  
  05/03/2015  02:17 PM    &lt;DIR&gt;          .
  05/03/2015  02:17 PM    &lt;DIR&gt;          ..
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM             4,397 erb
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM               177 erb.bat
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM               546 gem
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM               177 gem.bat
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM               318 irb
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM               177 irb.bat
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM         1,586,688 libeay32.dll
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM           127,316 libffi-6.dll
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM           140,586 libgdbm-3.dll
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM           103,726 libgdbm_compat-3.dll
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM         1,262,898 libiconv-2.dll
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM           442,898 libyaml-0-2.dll
  04/14/2015  06:41 PM         2,404,352 msvcrt-ruby200.dll
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM           238,505 pdcurses.dll
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM             1,320 rake
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM               177 rake.bat
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM               938 rdoc
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM               177 rdoc.bat
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM               188 ri
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM               177 ri.bat
  04/14/2015  06:41 PM           123,814 ruby.exe
  04/14/2015  06:41 PM           123,814 rubyw.exe
  02/13/2015  08:06 PM               312 setrbvars.bat
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM           386,048 ssleay32.dll
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM                78 testrb
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM               177 testrb.bat
  04/14/2015  06:54 PM            91,648 zlib1.dll
            27 File(s)      7,041,629 bytes
             2 Dir(s)  77,242,834,944 bytes free
  </code></pre>