From: Ragu Date: 2008-03-04T15:10:06+09:00 Subject: Help: could not do gems installation I am on windows xp. I also have netbeans installed which has ruby support. Installation of gems through netbeans works okay. But the GUI does not show me some of the gems I wanted to install. So I tried gem install activerecord-sqlserver-adapter which gives me the following message ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError) Bad file descriptor - connect(2)(Errno::EBADF) I am behind a firewall so I tried -p option too. I get a different error gem install activerecord-sqlserver-adapter -p ERROR: While executing gem ... (NoMethodError) undefined method `[]=' for # Netbeans website suggested the following alternative. jruby -S gem install activerecord-sqlserver-adapter This returns similar errors. I am not an expert rubyist. And I am not sure how to get activerecord- sqlserver-adapter installed. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time, Ragu