# Absolute Beginner -- having much trouble getting started

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/absolute-beginner-having-much-trouble-getting-started/154062>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 25, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/absolute-beginner-having-much-trouble-getting-started/154062 "2008-11-25T00:05:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![gpicton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@gpicton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gpicton)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/absolute-beginner-having-much-trouble-getting-started/154062/1 "2008-11-25T00:05:44Z")

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Hello

I’ve been trying to get this working for a good amount of time and with  
how simple its supposed to be I am feeling slightly overwhelmed.

I am using win XP sp3 and trying to get ruby and rails installed. And  
am trying to use NetBeans 6.5 as an IDE to write code in.

So I have ruby installed – but everytime I try to install rails

gem install rails --include-dependencies  
it says:  
[http://gems.rubyforge.org/](http://gems.rubyforge.org/) does not appear to be a repository

and if I do gem update  
it says:  
ERROR: [http://gems.rubyforge.org/](http://gems.rubyforge.org/) does not appear to be a repository  
while executing gem … (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)  
Errno::ECONNREFUSED: No connection could be made because the target  
machine actively refused it - connect(2) ([http://rubyforge.org/yaml](http://rubyforge.org/yaml))

I’ve found a couple places that have mentioned that the address the  
command looks at goes down every once and a while and I should check  
back later.

But to make a long story short I am getting pretty frustrated just  
trying to get everything installed and working in something that pretty  
much every guide I’ve read says should be easier than breathing. I’m  
sure I’m doing something wrong.

Any help would greatly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![gpicton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@gpicton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gpicton)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/absolute-beginner-having-much-trouble-getting-started/154062/2 "2008-11-25T00:16:10Z")

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I should mention that I’ve been battling getting this running, part time  
for a couple of weeks. I uninstalled everything I had earlier today  
thinking that I had messed something up earlier in setting everything  
up.

So I uninstalled and reinstalled everything and as soon as I had ruby  
186-26 installed again I couldn’t get rails to install through the winds  
cmd window.

Thanks again.

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**Author:** ![gpicton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@gpicton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gpicton)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/absolute-beginner-having-much-trouble-getting-started/154062/3 "2008-11-25T00:23:24Z")

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Well don’t know what to say.

I restarted my computer again. And the command worked.

Weird.

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**Author:** ![gpicton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@gpicton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gpicton)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/absolute-beginner-having-much-trouble-getting-started/154062/4 "2008-11-25T01:02:17Z")

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Garrett, have a read of  
[rails.info](http://guides.rails.info/getting_started_with_rails.html). That should  
help  
you a lot.

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**Author:** ![gpicton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@gpicton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gpicton)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 7:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/absolute-beginner-having-much-trouble-getting-started/154062/5 "2008-11-26T07:03:34Z")

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Hello Garrett,

You might also check this out:

[http://wiki.netbeans.org/RubyInstallation](http://wiki.netbeans.org/RubyInstallation)

Rick

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