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melissa brown
melissa brown
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Posted by melissa brown
melissa brown
4,670 Points

ruby installation wont open

my ruby installation will not open. on their site they say that "Depending on your location, sometimes the downloads will not work. This is due RubyForge provided mirrors. Until we completely move our releases out of them. please add /noredirect at the end of the URL and try again." ive tried putting /noredirect at the end of the url but keep on getting error msgs. ive tired many different ways eg

http://dl.bintray.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/rubyinstaller-2.2.2-x64.exe/nodirect

http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/nodirect

and even a link that they recommended http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/72170/rubyinstaller-1.9.2-p0.exe/noredirect

i either get a file not found error or RubyForge Could Not Connect to Database error.

has anyone had this problem before?

5 Answers

medev21
medev21
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medev21
medev21
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I had the same problem too, but if you open it as administrator, it will run just fine. Just an FYI, if anybody encounters this problem.

Jim Withington
Jim Withington
12,025 Points
Jim Withington
Jim Withington
12,025 Points

Hi Melissa,

A few times, above, you added "nodirect" instead of "noredirect." I wonder if that's part of the issue.

Good luck!

melissa brown
melissa brown
4,670 Points
melissa brown
melissa brown
4,670 Points

hi Jim, thanks for noticing that, but no either way it doesnt work

melissa brown
melissa brown
4,670 Points
melissa brown
melissa brown
4,670 Points

thanks for replying. it is working now not sure what the problem was.

Jim Withington
Jim Withington
12,025 Points

Sure thing! Sounds like maybe they were just having issues over there. :grinning:

Happy coding!

Jim Withington
Jim Withington
12,025 Points
Jim Withington
Jim Withington
12,025 Points

Hmm.

The odd thing about it for me is that those noredirect links don't work properly, but the regular rubyinstaller link seems to work over here, at least.