Problem installing rubygems

Ruby
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Hi

I’m trying to install rubygems, and the rails.
I have installed ruby already.
How do you do this? I can’t find any help installing these?
I have downloaded the package and the instruction is:

(extract, then run “ruby setup.rb”)

This file isn’t executable, I tried in CMD with ruby, or should I use windows Run command?

Why is that always so that installing is the most difficult part, I have had more experiences. For example Java, there is no indication what do I have to download and they change the names, so the installing guides in the books won’t match, then MySQL etc.:lol:

2

If yo have already installed ruby, why don’t you install a IDE like radrails ?
you can automatically install all the required gems through radrails itself.

3

I’m getting a HTTP Response 302 when trying to install/update.

I’m a newbie, so please keep that in mind when trying to help.

Satjot:~ satjotsawhney$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2009-06-08 patchlevel 369) [universal-darwin9.0]
Satjot:~ satjotsawhney$ rails -v
Rails 1.2.6
Satjot:~ satjotsawhney$ gem -v
1.0.1
Satjot:~ satjotsawhney$ sudo gem install rails
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteSourceException)
HTTP Response 302 fetching http://gems.rubyforge.org/yaml

4

I hear what you’re saying loud and clear. Installations almost always give me a hard time.

It’s been a while so I’ve forgotten all the steps I took to get things copacetic, but I think I started with the Wiki http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/getting-started/installation and then Googled for the errors as they popped up until things finally worked.

5

I did get the things to work now, when I got one thing working, new questions arised, but I got it working.

Why can’t it just be like installing a game ? :slight_smile: