From: julian Date: 2006-03-26T01:28:55+09:00 Subject: Re: installing rails As always ta very much indeed your help and time and persistance are very welcome. I have tried updating the gems and have issued the command from C:\ruby\bin gem update --system. That worked absolutely fine, and now I have some new sparkling gems! it says Ruby gem system data updated. so i will issue gem -v and i get 0.8.11 as expected. So I have updated from gems 0.8.10 to 0.8.11. that is fine. The link you mention : http://blog.leetsoft.com/articles/2005/06/17/installing-rails-made-easy is this for installing ruby and rails on a shell in otherwords on a unix opperating system, I think it is unix opperating systems that have a shell as such normally used for writting so called shell programs, I am conserned that this may not work on MS Windows XP Home? Of course as in php and python and perl and many languages we / you find many refrences to unix or linux, and I think may be I need to understand what's going to work in Unix and what's going to work in windows, from the point of view of installation. i have only updated from gems 0.8.10 to 0.8.11, and I have ruby version 1.8.2 I am very sorry I do not understand what is local metadata and why / where would the installation process be looking for it? I am willing to try as many things out as it takes but am very nervous of packages that install ruby rails, apache, mysql etc etc all at once!? I have on my computer already apache configured to use php 4.4.1 and mysql 4.1.16 working correctly. i notice in the control panel / add /remove programs there is a ruby uninstaller, so I guessI could uninstall ruby and start again, but this raises questions where are all rthe other programs that support ruby like rake, activesupport etc etc, bassically all the other ones that were reported as having been installed successfully. Thanks for you help receintly very much appreciated the battle to install rails goes on.. at the moment.... and will continue untill we have a real solution that works. I do not give up!!!