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Article:		Rolling with Ruby on Rails
Subject:		installation issues
Date:		2005-03-22 17:37:03
From:		mloco
I've been trying to install ruby and rails today on my XP machines, and i keep getting the same error, when I enter: gem install rails --remote c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in `require__': No such file to load -- iconv (LoadError) from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in `require'from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.0.2/lib/active_suppo rt/dependencies.rb:197:in `require'from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-0.8.0/lib/action_mailer /vendor/tmail/quoting.rb:1 from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in `require__' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in `require' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.0.2/lib/active_suppo rt/dependencies.rb:197:in `require'from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-0.8.0/lib/action_mailer /vendor/tmail/mail.rb:18 from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in `require__' ... 20 levels... from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:90:in `process_args' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:63:in `run'from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:9:in `run'from c:/ruby/bin/gem:11 i've tried to install locally but i get the same error after the gem packages are installed.

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• installation issues
  2005-03-22 18:52:35  Curt Hibbs | [View]
  
  
  A new version of Rails was released today, and it appears that it has a problem installing on Windows. I was able to reproduce it, and I also found a workaround.
  
  The workaround is to explicitly install the old version of Rails. You'd first have to uninstall each of Rails components that got installed before it blew up, but I think it would be easier just to start over and uninstall Ruby (either from the start menu entry or from add-remove programs).
  
  Then reinstall Ruby and use this command to install Rails:
  
  gem install rails -v 0.10.1
  
  That worked for me. I will report this problem to the Rails team.
• installation issues
  2005-03-23 10:06:42  sudaca [View]
  
  
  Thank you very much Curth. I was having the same problems and was going nuts trying to find any info on this.
• mkdir not automatic?
  2005-03-28 06:28:01  Teiman [View]
  
  
  w:\>rails cookbook
  create
  Invalid argument - *
  
  w:\>dir
  
  Volume in drive W is PE Serial number is C531:B78D
  Directory of W:\*
  
  28/03/05 16:03 <DIR> .
  28/03/05 16:03 <DIR> ..
  0 bytes in 0 files and 2 dirs
  5.674.467.328 bytes free
  
  w:\>mkdir test
  
  w:\>rails test
  exists
  create app/apis
  create app/controllers
  create app/helpers
  create app/models
  ...
  
  Humm???... looks like the new version fail to create the start dir on windows.