# Error message when installing rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-message-when-installing-rails/156843>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 4, 2009, 12:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-message-when-installing-rails/156843 "2009-01-04T00:05:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![cutegirl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@cutegirl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cutegirl)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 12:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-message-when-installing-rails/156843/1 "2009-01-04T00:05:04Z")

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After I entered the command “gem install rails --include-dependencies”  
for a while, an error message “ERROR: while executing gem…  
(Zlib::BufError) buffer error”. How can I fix this problem? I am new  
to rails and I hope I can get some help here. Thanks

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**Author:** ![cutegirl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@cutegirl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cutegirl)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 12:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-message-when-installing-rails/156843/2 "2009-01-04T00:37:52Z")

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What OS are you trying to install on?

Ethan Gunderson

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**Author:** ![cutegirl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@cutegirl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cutegirl)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 4:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-message-when-installing-rails/156843/3 "2009-01-04T04:22:00Z")

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Windows XP

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**Author:** ![cutegirl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@cutegirl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cutegirl)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 4:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-message-when-installing-rails/156843/4 "2009-01-04T04:42:28Z")

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I’m not sure what guide you followed, but this is the one I use for all  
of  
my Windows installs and it seams to work everytime.

[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsOnWindows](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsOnWindows)

Ethan Gunderson

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**Author:** ![cutegirl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@cutegirl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cutegirl)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 5:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-message-when-installing-rails/156843/5 "2009-01-04T05:29:48Z")

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Thanks for the help. I will try the link you provided.

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**Author:** ![cutegirl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@cutegirl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cutegirl)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 5:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-message-when-installing-rails/156843/6 "2009-01-04T05:36:14Z")

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Awesome, please post back and let us know how it went!

Ethan Gunderson

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**Author:** ![cutegirl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@cutegirl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cutegirl)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 5:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-message-when-installing-rails/156843/7 "2009-01-04T17:17:12Z")

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It works wonderfully. Thanks again.