# Error Downloading Cucumber using Igem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-downloading-cucumber-using-igem/175882>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [September 22, 2009, 4:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-downloading-cucumber-using-igem/175882 "2009-09-22T04:44:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![metanoize](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@metanoize](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/metanoize)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 4:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-downloading-cucumber-using-igem/175882/1 "2009-09-22T04:44:28Z")

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C:\DevTools\IronRuby\ironruby\Merlin\Main\Languages\Ruby\Scripts\bin\>ir  
igem  
ins  
tall cucumber  
ERROR: While executing gem … (RangeError)  
bignum too big to convert into Fixnum

C:\DevTools\IronRuby\ironruby\Merlin\Main\Languages\Ruby\Scripts\bin\>

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**Author:** ![metanoize](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@metanoize](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/metanoize)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 1:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-downloading-cucumber-using-igem/175882/2 "2009-09-22T13:29:30Z")

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Like Shri said before, this is a bug in rubygems and we forgot to patch  
it. Jim should be applying the fix shortly. Follow Shri instructions if  
you want to fix rubygems.

~Jimmy  
Sent from my phone

On Sep 21, 2009, at 7:46 PM, “Mohammad A.”  
\<removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)\> wrote:

C:\DevTools\IronRuby\ironruby\Merlin\Main\Languages\Ruby\Scripts\bin\>ir  
igem ins  
tall cucumber  
ERROR: While executing gem … (RangeError)  
bignum too big to convert into Fixnum

C:\DevTools\IronRuby\ironruby\Merlin\Main\Languages\Ruby\Scripts\bin\>

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