Ask HN: LoadError on Installing Rails via Cygwin

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I am trying to instal rails on Windows XP to do the Ruby on Rails Tutorial but attemtpting to install rails, I am getting this error:

Marlon@DevComputer ~/rubygems-1.8.15 $ gem install rails C:\Ruby192\bin\ruby.exe: No such file or directory -- /cygdrive/c/Ruby192/bin/gem (LoadError)

Any help? All the links I am finding so far on Google search does not solve the issue. Any solution?

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I tried getting rails working under cygwin a while ago, and never had much luck. If you're using a windows system, my suggestions would be either to use Rails Installer:

http://railsinstaller.org/

(haven't actually tried this myself, but I've heard it's pretty solid) or to run a unix VM in virtualbox or vmware. I did the latter and had no problems getting everything working with the help of rvm.

I'd recommend re-asking this on StackOverflow. You'll probably get faster results, and it's a more appropriate place to ask technical questions regardless.

that's right.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8796124/loaderror-on-inst...

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