From: RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>
Date: 2008-08-05T12:28:43+09:00
Subject: Re: "gem install rails –r" => (URI: :InvalidURIError)

On Aug 4, 7:46 pm, Eric Hodel <drbr...@segment7.net> wrote:
> 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

Hi again Eric,

I still have 1.8.6 installed along with 1.9.0.  I mention that because
it might have some bearing at the second exception following the "gem
--debug install rails -r" command.

The exception references F:\Documents and Settings\RLMuller\.gem\specs
\gems.rubyforge.org%80,
which contains an untyped file "latest_specs.4.8" that seems to
contain Rails settings, e.g. ActsAsEscaped.

Presumably my 1.8.6 version references the Latest Specs file also.
that presents a potential conflict that might bear on the current
problem.

I hope this is a help to your analysis and not a distraction.

Best wishes,
Richard