InstantRails Installation Problem

[ChrisGilmore]

Ok, I am currently following Patrick Lenz's Ruby on Rails sample PDF guide - as I may be looking into getting the book. However, when installing a come across an error - when installing the final part in the Ruby Console. Obviously I'm on a Windows Machine. This particular one is XP Service Pack 2 and I downloaded the exact same InstantRails version (1.3a) as the book.



Yes, I installed it directly onto C:\ and everything as it said in the book. I cannot see what's wrong. I'm pretty new (Well, completely new) to RoR as you can see. It looks pretty darn good though.

Can any of you guys help?

[Fenrir2]

What is the problem?

Gem tells you that there is no rails.gem file on your machine. This is all right, because gem will download it for you. Just wait a little longer and gem will install Rails.

[ChrisGilmore]

What is the problem?

Gem tells you that there is no rails.gem file on your machine. This is all right, because gem will download it for you. Just wait a little longer and gem will install Rails.

I've left it for around 5 mins now... nothing. Still going. But still, nothing.

EDIT 1:

Ok, new error. I've downloaded rails.gem manully and it finds it. However it says it needs Activesupport 1.4.1. So I downloaded that and but it says this when trying to install Activesupport.

error installing gem activesupport[.gem]: string contains null byte.

Any ideas?

[Fenrir2]

Try to update RubyGems:

gem update --system

Then try:

gem install rails --include-dependencies

[ChrisGilmore]

Try to update RubyGems:

gem update --system

I've tried that. I get "Upgrading RubyGems" then nothing - and i've left it for hours while I was out.