Ruby on Rails on Windows: gem install fails, no output at all

Question

I installed ruby through the windows installer yesterday. All seemed fine.

Today, I went installing the rmagick win32 gem like so: c:\ruby187\bin\gem install rmagick-2.7.1-x86-mswin32.gem in the directory with the gem.

That also seemed to work fine, got the familiar 1 gem installed Installing ...[all the ri and other docs].

But after that, I am tried: c:\ruby187\bin\gem install --version '= 2.3.5' rails

it just returned immediately with no output. Probably doing nothing.

c:\ruby187\bin\gem list --local

the same, no output, but returns to the cmd line (no hang).

c:\ruby187\bin\gem install rails c:\ruby187\bin\gem install --debug rails c:\ruby187\bin\gem install --debug --version '= 2.3.5' rails

does exactly the same. Any idea what's wrong? I am a RoR newbie, although I already have some experience with it on linux - but not on Windows.

Can anybody help? Really appreciated, started to get concerned now...

Answer 1

I've already had problems for installing rails on windows using the command gem install. The solution was executing the file cmd.exe like Administrator. This file is encountered in path C:\windows\system32 on Windows XP. Try do it.