# Help installing rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-installing-rails/60808>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 17, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-installing-rails/60808 "2006-05-17T17:40:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![McDevittS\_Chris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@McDevittS\_Chris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/McDevittS_Chris)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-installing-rails/60808/1 "2006-05-17T17:40:53Z")

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Any suggestions?

C:\WINDOWS\>gem install rails  
Attempting local installation of ‘rails’  
Local gem file not found: rails\*.gem  
Attempting remote installation of ‘rails’  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Errno::EBADF)  
Bad file descriptor - connect(2)

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**Author:** ![McDevittS\_Chris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@McDevittS\_Chris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/McDevittS_Chris)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-installing-rails/60808/2 "2006-05-17T20:33:33Z")

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On May 17, 2006, at 8:38 AM, McDevitt, Chris wrote:

> Any suggestions?

Try the rails mailing list.

[http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)

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Eric H. - removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid - [http://blog.segment7.net](http://blog.segment7.net)  
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