# Please help: Error during "gem install rails"

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-error-during-gem-install-rails/145193>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 6, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-error-during-gem-install-rails/145193 "2008-08-06T19:28:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pedro\_Carneiro\_Jr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/da6949/32.png) [@Pedro\_Carneiro\_Jr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pedro_Carneiro_Jr)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-error-during-gem-install-rails/145193/1 "2008-08-06T19:28:34Z")

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Hi, all.

I have just downloaded Ruby and Ruby Gems and successfully installed  
both  
(ruby186-26.exe and setup.rb).

But when I am with RubyGems loaded, and try to install all of Rails and  
its  
dependencies through the command line (just like in  
[Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.](http://www.rubyonrails.org/down)), an error takes place:

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

Can anybody help?

All the best,  
Pedro.

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**Author:** ![Pedro\_Carneiro\_Jr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/da6949/32.png) [@Pedro\_Carneiro\_Jr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pedro_Carneiro_Jr)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-error-during-gem-install-rails/145193/2 "2008-08-06T20:17:45Z")

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creo que se soluciona con lo siguiente…  
crea tu estructura de archivos con el siguiente comando  
rails nombredelproyecto -d mysql  
ya que las versiones mas recientes del ruby on rails no ponen a mysql  
como servidor de base de datos por default

pd: disculpa que escriba en español 🙂

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**Author:** ![Pedro\_Carneiro\_Jr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/da6949/32.png) [@Pedro\_Carneiro\_Jr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pedro_Carneiro_Jr)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-error-during-gem-install-rails/145193/3 "2008-08-06T22:57:39Z")

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Gracias, jvp. Trataré hacer lo que usted recomendas.  
Sin problema, amigo. Yo hablo Portugues y creo que el español no es un  
grande problema pero que soy  
brasileño.[]s,  
Pedro.