# Instant Rails : Installation

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails-installation/88499>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 12, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails-installation/88499 "2007-03-12T03:56:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![FrankLo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@FrankLo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/FrankLo)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails-installation/88499/1 "2007-03-12T03:56:28Z")

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Hi Guys.

I Downloaded and tried to unzip the Instant Rails .zip installation  
file (InstantRails-1.6-win.zip) but I’m receiving the following error  
message for several files:

“The filename or extension is too long”

Could you guys please advice. Thanks in advance!

FrankLo

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**Author:** ![FrankLo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@FrankLo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/FrankLo)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2007, 6:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails-installation/88499/2 "2007-03-12T06:41:40Z")

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FrankLo wrote:

> Hi Guys.
> 
> I Downloaded and tried to unzip the Instant Rails .zip installation  
> file (InstantRails-1.6-win.zip) but I’m receiving the following error  
> message for several files:
> 
> “The filename or extension is too long”
> 
> Could you guys please advice. Thanks in advance!

Try unpacking it at the root of C:.

The archive is packed with an extra root directory at the top for some  
reason.  
I.e. the path is “InstantRails-1.6-win” =\> “InstantRails” =\>  
.

If you extract the archive into it’s own directory first you add one  
more  
level, e.g.:

=\> “InstantRails-1.6-win” =\> “InstantRails” =\> …

When I try to extract it to my Desktop folder with the extra folder  
WinZip 9.0  
will give up near the end. I tried WinRAR and the Windows XP built-in  
extractor but they just hang trying to deal with that archive. If I  
extract it  
to my Desktop without the extra directory it works or if I extract it to  
C:  
even with the extra directory it works.

–  
Michael W.

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**Author:** ![FrankLo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@FrankLo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/FrankLo)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2007, 6:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails-installation/88499/3 "2007-03-12T06:57:42Z")

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On 3/11/07, FrankLo [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Hi Guys.
> 
> I Downloaded and tried to unzip the Instant Rails .zip installation  
> file (InstantRails-1.6-win.zip) but I’m receiving the following error  
> message for several files:
> 
> “The filename or extension is too long”
> 
> Could you guys please advice. Thanks in advance!

I have two thoughts… First, make sure the path under which you are  
unzipping does not contain any space characters (like “Program  
Files”), and second, maybe your base path + the IR internal paths end  
up exceeding 255 chars, so try unzipping it in the root of one of your  
drives.

If neither of those helps, what software are you using to unzip it? I  
can successfully unzip it with both 7-Zip (open source) and WinZip  
(commercial).

Curt

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**Author:** ![FrankLo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@FrankLo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/FrankLo)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails-installation/88499/4 "2007-03-12T22:30:51Z")

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On 3/12/07, Michael W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> > Could you guys please advice. Thanks in advance!
> 
> When I try to extract it to my Desktop folder with the extra folder WinZip 9.0  
> will give up near the end. I tried WinRAR and the Windows XP built-in  
> extractor but they just hang trying to deal with that archive. If I extract it  
> to my Desktop without the extra directory it works or if I extract it to C:  
> even with the extra directory it works.

If if you successfully unpacked to the desktop, you couldn’t run  
Instant Rails there because the desktop folder contains spaces in its  
path.

Curt

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**Author:** ![FrankLo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@FrankLo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/FrankLo)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails-installation/88499/5 "2007-03-12T17:07:03Z")

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I tried unpacking it at the root of C: and worked fine.  
Thanks!  
FrankLo