# Problems installing rake

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-installing-rake/180355>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [December 18, 2009, 9:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-installing-rake/180355 "2009-12-18T09:39:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Lars\_Von\_Wedel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Lars\_Von\_Wedel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Lars_Von_Wedel)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 9:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-installing-rake/180355/1 "2009-12-18T09:39:42Z")

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Hello,

I installed Ironruby, mainly for the purpose of experimenting with rake.  
Using ‘igem install rake’ fails, I suspect due to authentication issues  
with the proxies on our company network.

I then downloaded the rake sources as of 0.8.7 and ran ‘ir install.rb’  
in the sources directory, but this doesn’t seem to work either.

What am I doing wrong or are there any other options to install rake for  
IronRuby ?

Lars

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**Author:** ![Lars\_Von\_Wedel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Lars\_Von\_Wedel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Lars_Von_Wedel)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 9:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-installing-rake/180355/2 "2009-12-18T09:49:39Z")

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What version of IronRuby are you using, and what is the error message  
you get in both cases (using gems and running the installer locally)?  
You probably just want to download the gem file for rake and install  
that locally.

If you’re OK with building from the IronRuby sources, we have rake  
pre-installed in that environment.

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**Author:** ![Lars\_Von\_Wedel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Lars\_Von\_Wedel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Lars_Von_Wedel)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-installing-rake/180355/3 "2009-12-21T21:28:25Z")

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Did you setup the environment variable for your proxy?

SET HTTP\_PROXY=http://proxy.mycompany.com:2112  
igem install rake --no-rdoc --no-ri  
irake --version

Regards,  
Jay Turpin  
"Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’. " - Yoda (‘The Empire Strikes Back’)