From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-08-05T08:46:50+09:00
Subject: Re: "gem install rails –r"  =>  (URI::InvalidURIError)

On Aug 4, 2008, at 16:08 PM, RichardOnRails wrote:
> I installed Ruby 1.9.0-03 (ruby 1.9.0 (2008-07-25 revision 18217)
> [i386-mswin32]) over WinXP/SP2 a few days ago.  It works great.
>
> That installation included gem 1.2.0.1824.  I searched for a Rails gem
> and got:
>
> K:\_Utilities\Ruby>gem list rails -r
> *** REMOTE GEMS ***
> rails (2.1.0)
> [snip]
>
> I tried a number of permutations/combinations of:
> gem install rails –r
>
> They all failed with:
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (URI::InvalidURIError)
>    bad URI(is not URI?):
>
> Gem under my Ruby 1.8.6 installation was working fine a while back.
> My Firefox 2.0 browser is working fine.  Any idea what the problem
> might be?

Please report:

gem env

gem --debug install rails -r