From: Its Me <itsme213@...>
Date: 2004-10-05T22:34:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails gem install failure


"Joey Gibson" <joey@joeygibson.com> wrote in message
news:41629F43.2090600@joeygibson.com...
> Its Me wrote:
> >C:\DOCUME~1\DESMOND>gem -i rails
> >Attempting local installation of 'rails'
> > -> Local installation can't proceed: Unknown gem file 'rails'
> >Attempting remote installation of 'rails'
> >undefined method `version_requirement' for #<Gem::Dependency:0x53a52d8>
>
> In both instances you are trying to do a "local" install, which means
> you are trying to install from a gem repository that is on the same
> machine. You want to do a remote install.
>
> "gem install --remote rails" should do what you want
>

From the output I think 0.8.1 gems tries local, then attempts remote. The
failure message was from an undefined method.

I tried your command line and it die not work (with 0.8.1). I tried
  gem -Ri rails
and got the same undefined method failure.

Other ideas?