From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-04-14T05:00:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Gem help

On Apr 13, 3:58 pm, H- 16 <s1ay3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to DL a gem but I keep getting this message:
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> >E:\Ruby\bin>cmd /k "F:\Torque Game Engine Demo\System\Hack\Ruby\bin\gem.bat"
> >The system cannot find the drive specified.
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> >E:\Ruby\bin>gem i narray
> >Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> >ERROR:  Error installing narray:
> >        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
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> >E:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
> >checking for sys/types.h... no
> >checking for u_int8_t... no
> >checking for int16_t... no
> >checking for int32_t... no
> >checking for u_int32_t... no
> >creating narray_config.h
> >creating Makefile
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> >nmake
> >'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> >operable program or batch file.
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> >Gem files will remain installed in E:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/narray->0.5.9.7
> > for inspection.
> >Results logged to E:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/narray->0.5.9.7/src/gem_make.out
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> >E:\Ruby\bin>
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> Does anyone know how to solve this? Btw,
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> >E:\Ruby\bin>cmd /k "F:\Torque Game Engine Demo\System\Hack\Ruby\bin\gem.bat"
> >The system cannot find the drive specified.
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1) Avoid path with spaces

2) Add Ruby\bin directory to your path:

SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\Ruby\bin

3) proceed to gem installation with verbose and debug modes:

gem install xxx --debug -V

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Luis Lavena