tag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:/discussions/problems/555-problem-installimg-gems-in-windows-7
RubyGems.org: Discussion
2011-05-11T19:43:54Z
tag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/6591380
2011-04-12T15:27:23Z
2011-04-12T15:27:24Z
Problem installimg gems in windows 7
<div><p>hey guy i need help in installing gems in windows 7.</p>
<p>i get the following errors:</p>
<p>c:\Ruby\bin>gem install rails<br>
ERROR: <a href="http://rubygems.org/">http://rubygems.org/</a> does
not appear to be a repository<br>
ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'rails' (>= 0) in any
repository</p>
<p>It also doesn't work with 'gem install rails --pre'</p>
<p>My versions are:</p>
<p>c:\Ruby\bin>ruby -v<br>
ruby 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18) [i386-mingw32]<br>
c:\Ruby\bin>gem -v<br>
1.3.7</p>
<p>My environment is:</p>
<p>RubyGems Environment:<br>
- RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.7 - RUBY VERSION: 1.9.2 (2010-08-18
patchlevel 0) [i386-mingw32] - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY:
c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1 - RUBY EXECUTABLE: c:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe
- EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: c:/Ruby/bin - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:</p>
<pre>
<code>- ruby
- x86-mingw32</code>
</pre>
<ul>
<li>GEM PATHS:
<ul>
<li>c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1</li>
<li>C:/Users/Banta/.gem/ruby/1.9.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>GEM CONFIGURATION:
<ul>
<li>:update_sources => true</li>
<li>:verbose => true</li>
<li>:benchmark => false</li>
<li>:backtrace => false</li>
<li>:bulk_threshold => 1000</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>REMOTE SOURCES:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://rubygems.org/">http://rubygems.org/</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul></div>
Bernard Banta
tag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/6591380
2011-04-12T15:36:04Z
2011-04-12T15:36:04Z
Problem installimg gems in windows 7
<div><p>Hello,</p>
<p>Check if you're behind a proxy/firewall and use --http-proxy
option accordingly.</p>
<p>This has been answered before:</p>
<p><a href=
"http://help.rubygems.org/discussions/problems/491-trouble-installing-buildr-error-httprubygemsorg-does-not-appear-to-be-a-repository">
http://help.rubygems.org/discussions/problems/491-trouble-installin...</a></p></div>
Luis Lavena