# Rubygems environment in vista

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-environment-in-vista/155975>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 18, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-environment-in-vista/155975 "2008-12-18T19:38:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/taylorstrait)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-environment-in-vista/155975/1 "2008-12-18T19:38:40Z")

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I’m having trouble loading RubyGems into my Vista32 environment. It  
will only run from ruby/bin. See below:

C:\Rails\rails\_apps\>gem -v  
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

C:\Rails\rails\_apps\>ruby -v  
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32]

C:\Rails\rails\_apps\>rails -v  
Rails 2.2.2

C:\Rails\rails\_apps\>cd…\ruby\bin

C:\Rails\ruby\bin\>gem -v  
1.3.1

In Vista’s environment settings, RUBYOPT -rubygems is present but it  
does not work. Is there something I am missing? Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/taylorstrait)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-environment-in-vista/155975/2 "2008-12-18T19:45:22Z")

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On Dec 18, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Taylor S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> Rails 2.2.2
> 
> C:\Rails\rails\_apps\>cd…\ruby\bin
> 
> C:\Rails\ruby\bin\>gem -v  
> 1.3.1
> 
> In Vista’s environment settings, RUBYOPT -rubygems is present but it  
> does not work. Is there something I am missing? Thanks in advance.

Is the ruby/bin directory in your path?

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**Author:** ![taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/taylorstrait)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-environment-in-vista/155975/3 "2008-12-18T20:02:41Z")

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Mark T. wrote:

> Is the ruby/bin directory in your path?

Nice call. The path had been set to something else. This fixed my  
problem. Thanks!