Re: Weird install problems

Eric B.
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:21:26 -0000

Eric B. wrote:
> I am new to RoR, and I am just starting out, but I am having massive
> problems doing what should be a painless install. I am running a windows
> machine and I have ruby installed as well as gems.
>
> When I try to do the command
> gem install rails
> I get
>
> c:\Ruby19>gem install rails
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Errno::ENOENT)
>     No such file or directory - P:/
>
> I do not want it to install to a P:/ directory and I have no clue how to
> change its install path.
>
> I have reinstalled both ruby and gems multiple times
> and I would greatly appreciate any advice you have for me.

I have solved my problem. for those of you who want to know what the
problem is that the HOMEDRIVE was set to P:
to fix this if you type "set HOMEDRIVE=C:" in command prompt and then
verify with an "echo HOMEDRIVE" and then run the install it should
work.

Thanks if you were working on this.
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