Failure to install or update any gem through Win CMD

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Hello,

I've been trying to install and update different gems to work with Ruby on Rails, but keep getting the same error, apparently indicating I can't install or update any gem:

I generally type in something like:

gem update --system or gem install Rails --version 4.0.0 --no-ri --no-rdoc

And get the following:

ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EINVAL) Invalid Argument - socket(2) - udp

Note that I've proceeded to the same setup just a couple of days before on a different machine and had no problem.

I couldn't figure any place where this same Error was explained or encoutered.

Anybody here can help out?

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Are you running the same version of Ruby on both setups, and which version is it ruby -v will tell you.

You may well have difficulties getting help with a Windows setup however, as few Rails developers use Win.

Colin

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The error you’ve described looks a lot like this one:

https://github.com/rubinius/rubinius/issues/2929#issuecomment-34701873

Can you run the script linked there and paste your output?

Since this is (potentially) a networking issue, any information about your setup (system version, network config, any proxies in use, etc) would be useful.

–Matt Jones

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you’re trying to develop on windows?