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Johanne Trippas
7,367 PointsErrors while installing Ruby on Rails 4.0.2
Hi,
I followed all the steps and entered "gem install rails --version=4.0.2" in my terminal but get a lot of errors.
Could anyone help me out?
Thanks!
Some of the errors:
unable to convert "\xFF" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for guides/assets/images/rails_guides_kindle_cover.jpg, skipping unable to convert "\xEC" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for guides/assets/images/rails_guides_logo.gif, skipping unable to convert "\x8C" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for guides/assets/images/rails_logo_remix.gif, skipping unable to convert "\x89" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for guides/assets/images/session_fixation.png, skipping unable to convert "\x80" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for guides/assets/images/tab_grey.gif, skipping unable to convert "\x80" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for guides/assets/images/tab_info.gif, skipping unable to convert "\x80" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for guides/assets/images/tab_note.gif, skipping unable to convert "\x80" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for guides/assets/images/tab_red.gif, skipping unable to convert "\x80" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for guides/assets/images/tab_yellow.gif, skipping unable to convert "\x89" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for guides/assets/images/tab_yellow.png, skipping unable to convert "\xFF" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for guides/assets/images/vijaydev.jpg, skipping
4 Answers
Ryno Botha
Courses Plus Student 4,055 PointsThere are a few ways to get around this, I'm listing them in the order I would probably try them:
+Don't install the documentation with the rails gem; instead of running gem install rails do gem install rails --no-rdoc --no-ri. I hardly ever use built in documentation anyway, so I actually have gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc in my ~/.gemrc file so that documentation is never installed for any gem.
+Install rails without documentation as in #1, but then build the documentation by hand using rdoc and the --exclude='.dat' flag, like rdoc --exclude='.dat' activesupport/lib to build the activesupport docs, as recommended (https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/9590#issuecomment-14561135).
Also Check:
Rob Rees
6,076 PointsI'm having similar problems. I followed the install instructions exactly but the install hangs when it gets to installing ri documentation. I closed the cmd editor and retried, uninstalling and reinstalling rails. I then tried the install with no-ri and no-rdoc. It said it installed successfully but only 1 gem, whereas in the treehouse video it looks like Jason has 27 gems?
Anyway I tried to create a test app and then got the error DL Deprecated please use fiddle???
Is this possibly because i am on a netbook that cant handle rails?
Ryno Botha
Courses Plus Student 4,055 PointsIt can Handle Rails ^^
Check:
http://sermoa.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/rails-on-a-netbook/
Hope it'll work x)
Also Try:
If your using Windows~
(P.S Netbeans is very slow on a netbook)
Rob Rees
6,076 PointsThanks for your help. I managed to get it working in the mean time. The error message I was getting is just a warning and you can ignore this, say yes to an overwrite option and rails works then.
Ryno Botha
Courses Plus Student 4,055 PointsMp~
haha ok cool x)
Johanne Trippas
7,367 PointsMy test seemed to have worked even though I had the warming signs. If not I'll be posting for more help later on :)
Ryno Botha
Courses Plus Student 4,055 PointsNo problem x) will help where I can ^^