# Error while installation of rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-while-installation-of-rails/162744>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 13, 2009, 10:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-while-installation-of-rails/162744 "2009-03-13T10:41:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![sharon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@sharon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sharon)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 10:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-while-installation-of-rails/162744/1 "2009-03-13T10:41:40Z")

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Hi,

I get the below error while trying to install rails.  
Could you please help me out. I have installed the Ruby(v 1.8.6) and  
the setup gems(v 1.3.1) also.

C:\Ruby\>gem install rails  
ERROR: [http://gems.rubyforge.org/](http://gems.rubyforge.org/) does not appear to be a repository  
ERROR: could not find gem rails locally or in a repository

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![sharon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@sharon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sharon)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 10:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-while-installation-of-rails/162744/2 "2009-03-13T10:52:49Z")

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Check your gem and ruby installations and check there versions.

gem -v  
ruby -v

Thanks,  
Shahroon

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**Author:** ![sharon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@sharon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sharon)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 11:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-while-installation-of-rails/162744/3 "2009-03-13T11:03:22Z")

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try something like:  
sudo gem install rails --source [http://gems.rubyonrails.org](http://gems.rubyonrails.org)