[Rspec-devel] Trouble with the latest gems under windows

[Chad Nantais]

I also got that error on Windows while trying to update my rspec gem
from 0.5.5 to 0.5.7.  I found no solution yet.

I am running the same version of Ruby as Lachie.

Chad

On 6/8/06, Lachie <lachiec at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having trouble with the latest gems
>
> It works fine on linux:
> $ rspec --remote -v '0.5.7'
>
> But under windows:
> ( >ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]
> okay, so i should upgrade that, but still...)
>
> >gem install rspec --remote -v '0.5.7'
> >"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "c:\ruby\bin\gem" install rspec -v '
> 0.5.7'
> Attempting local installation of 'rspec'
> Local gem file not found: rspec*.gem
> Attempting remote installation of 'rspec'
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Zlib::BufError)
>     buffer error
>
> # to prove 0.5.6 still installs ok:
> >gem install rspec --remote -v '0.5.6'
> >"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "c:\ruby\bin\gem" install rspec -v '
> 0.5.6'
> Attempting local installation of 'rspec'
> Local gem file not found: rspec*.gem
> Attempting remote installation of 'rspec'
> Successfully installed rspec-0.5.6
> Installing RDoc documentation for rspec-0.5.6...
>
> any ideas?
> thanks,
> Lachie
> http://lachie.info/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/lachie/
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