# IronRuby igem not working

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-igem-not-working/223765>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [October 17, 2012, 5:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-igem-not-working/223765 "2012-10-17T05:33:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aris)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 5:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-igem-not-working/223765/1 "2012-10-17T05:33:51Z")

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Hi All,

When trying to download the following gems from the cucumber wiki page,  
I get the following error:

> **[GitHub - cucumber/common: A home for issues that are common to multiple...](https://github.com/cucumber/common)**
>
> A home for issues that are common to multiple cucumber repositories - GitHub - cucumber/common: A home for issues that are common to multiple cucumber repositories

igem install cucumber —no-ri —no-rdoc  
igem install iron-term-ansicolor —no-ri —no-rdoc

ERROR: Could not find a valid gem ‘slimgems’ (\>= 0) in any repository  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)  
Errno::ECONNREFUSED: No connection could be made because the target  
machine  
actively refused it. - connect(2)  
([http://rubygems.org/latest\_specs.4.8.gz](http://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz))

In addition I have tried other gems like rake, and get the same error as  
above.

I have no connection issues, being able to download gems from webpages  
directly (no command line).

I repeated the same on normal ruby (MRI), and got the same error. A

Can anyone shed any light on how to resolve this? Much appreciated.

Many Thanks,  
Rahul Dixit

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**Author:** ![rahul\_d](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/d07c76/32.png) [@rahul\_d](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rahul_d)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-igem-not-working/223765/2 "2012-10-17T18:56:00Z")

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Just as a reminder:

Are you running igem from a powershell or cmd screen that you opened as  
administrator?

I usually get that kind of confusing errors if I forget to “run as  
administrator”

Regards,

Eduardo