gem install rails doesn't do anything

Question

I installed Ruby and RubyGems on Ubuntu 10.04. Ruby is version 1.8.7. Gems is version 1.3.7. When I try sudo gem install rails, nothing happens. It just hangs forever. What am I missing? Thanks!

Answer 1

Try adding -V (upper case) to the end of the install command, if forces the command to be verbose, so you can see things going on. Eg:

sudo gem install rails -V

Answer 2

It'll take quite some time to install rails - there are lot of dependencies and these need to be downloaded - if you have a slow connection, just wait for a bit.

Answer 3

1. try to add -V (upper-case) in the parameter, to show more detail of what is downloading

2. if it still very slow or pending somewhere, it normally indicates a low internet connection to the rubygems.org site(showing in the output window). you can try to update the source of the gem using, by

   gem source -r https://rubygems.org/

   gem source -a "your new source site"

in my country, after I switch to http://ruby.taobao.org, it only takes 1min to complete the installation.

Answer 4

In addition to monitoring with the -V flag, it's also worth checking that you can pull anything from the internet first. If you're not sure (new server, for example), try wget -O/dev/null https://rubygems.org/ and see if there is trouble retrieving the source site.