# Help: could not do gems installation

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-could-not-do-gems-installation/130883>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 4, 2008, 7:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-could-not-do-gems-installation/130883 "2008-03-04T07:11:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ragu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/c67d28/32.png) [@Ragu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ragu)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 7:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-could-not-do-gems-installation/130883/1 "2008-03-04T07:11:35Z")

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I am on windows xp. I also have netbeans installed which has ruby  
support.

Installation of gems through netbeans works okay. But the GUI does not  
show me some of the gems I wanted to install. So I tried

```
       gem install activerecord-sqlserver-adapter

```

which gives me the following message

ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)  
Bad file descriptor - connect(2)(Errno::EBADF)

I am behind a firewall so I tried -p option too. I get a different  
error

```
        gem install activerecord-sqlserver-adapter -p

```

ERROR: While executing gem … (NoMethodError)  
undefined method `[]=’ for #Gem::ConfigFile:0x2d5dd68

Netbeans website suggested the following alternative.

```
       jruby -S gem install activerecord-sqlserver-adapter

```

This returns similar errors.

I am not an expert rubyist. And I am not sure how to get activerecord-  
sqlserver-adapter installed. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time,  
Ragu