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Ruby Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing Ruby on Windows

Posted by Niger Hall
Niger Hall
3,800 Points

error message while installing rails on windows

I received this erroe message while installing rail through cmd

ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno: : EINVAL) Invalid arguement - .ActionDispatch/Routing/Mapper/Scoping/:

I am stuck and don't know why this came up and nor am comfortable or even sure that I can move forward from here. Please someone help!!

3 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

try running the command again

gem install rails
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

I dont think rails installer works for rails 4

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Yeah, just noticed that. Will be helpful for Treebook though.

cp88
cp88
5,039 Points
cp88
cp88
5,039 Points

Thank you, Stone. I had the exact same message and tried to install again and it worked fine!

However, it only says "1 gem installed" and the video shows 27...should I be worried?