Getting Started Information

[anchapin]

I'm trying to follow the "Hello World" examples using the readme and after watching the AU Class but I have some questions. I'm on Windows 10 and have Revit 2020.2, various openstudio versions installed with latest being 3.0.0, and I'm trying to use Microsoft Visual Studio Code as the IDE instead of RubyMine (since it was already installed for other purposes).

• My question is do I need to install Ruby on Windows directly to use Ruby extensions in my IDE using something like https://rubyinstaller.org/? I tried installing Ruby extensions in VSCode and I get an error saying that the gem is not found and to run "gem install solargraph" or update my gemfile but ruby doesn't seem to be installed on my machine outside of Revit and OpenStudio because running "ruby -v" in powershell returns a message saying that ruby is not recognized.

• If so which version of Ruby do I need? The OpenStudio 3.0.0 release notes indicate to use Ruby 2.5.5 but I'm not sure which version of the OpenStudio SDK is used in Revit.

I suggest that you add a software requirements section or something to make sure everyone has the correct prerequisites to get started, unless I'm missing something.