# Re: ir -S gem not working on windows 7 32-bit

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ir-s-gem-not-working-on-windows-7-32-bit/185776>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [March 25, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ir-s-gem-not-working-on-windows-7-32-bit/185776 "2010-03-25T23:31:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ir-s-gem-not-working-on-windows-7-32-bit/185776/1 "2010-03-25T23:31:20Z")

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Yeah. Thats expected, but we should also fix it. Ir -S igem should work

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From: Ivan Porto C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 3:13 PM  
To: ironruby-core [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
Subject: [Ironruby-core] ir -S gem not working on windows 7 32-bit

Hi

just for information:

On a clean instance of windows 7, with the latest ironruby release and  
using cmd.exe I’m unable to run ir -S gem install rails

can’t find C:\users\ivan\gem is the error message.

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