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15 comments.

1. 

   Justin

   May 25th, 8:00 pm #

   Thanks, I thought it was something wrong with ruby so I reinstalled everything. I wish I had read this first.
2. 

   Jim Werwath

   May 31st, 12:38 pm #

   Thank you Alex!!! This fixed it for me.
3. 

   Stuart

   June 6th, 6:43 am #

   Thanks Alex. This solved another gem installation failure for me.
   Looking around the web this problem seems to be prevalant for anyone on windows running a 0.9.2 version of ruby gems (type `gem environment` to find out what’s running). After updating everything went smoothly. Cheers
4. 

   Bob

   June 7th, 5:08 am #

   Appreciate it Alex–solved my problem!
5. 

   Ryan

   June 8th, 4:06 pm #

   This is exactly what I needed to get Capistrano to install on Windows XP. Thank you!
6. 

   Jan M

   June 16th, 2:12 pm #

   Ok, after two times “gem update –system” I still had the same error. It also suddenly wanted to update gems that were already up to date. So I did a reinstall of Ruby, then the two updates and then it worked.

   I tracked down the cause of the screwed up installation and it turned out to be the preview version of capistrano 2! Be warned. Before I figured this out I had done 5 clean Ruby installs…

   So, although the tutorial on their site tell you, DON’T DO:
   gem install -s http://gems.rubyonrails.com capistrano
7. 

   srboisvert

   August 8th, 9:09 am #

   I am getting a bit different error.

   I have instant rails installed and it works fine.

   I’ve installed the Capistrano gem and it indicates success but as soon as I test it with cap -h. it throws up an error:

   C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-2.0.0/lib/capistrano
   ui.rb:5: undefined method `track_eof=’ for HighLine:Class (NoMethodError)

   I’ve updated several times – each time it says:
   Updating RubyGems…
   Need to update 1 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org
   .
   complete
   Attempting remote update of rubygems-update
   Successfully installed rubygems-update-0.9.4
   Updating version of RubyGems to 0.9.4
   Installing RubyGems 0.9.4

   and indicates everything went fine.

   I’m a bit frustrated since nobody else seems to have this error.
8. 

   Alex Gorbatchev

   August 8th, 9:14 am #

   Seems like the error is referring to highline gem. See if you have it and maybe install/update.

   http://rubyforge.org/projects/highline/
9. 

   srboisvert

   August 8th, 10:23 am #

   Thanks Alex. That did the job. Now on to the hard work! Up, up and away!
10. 

    Steve Midgley

    September 7th, 10:43 am #

    This turns out to be a very general problem with Zlib on Ruby for Windows. I’ve written up the code that allows you to work around it:

    http://www.misuse.org/science/2007/09/07/ruby-zlib-buffer-error-on-windows/

    Basically the core is from the RubyGems guys (Jamis Buck I think). I’ve just published the code if anyone needs to know how to avoid buffer errors in the Zlib Ruby library in other places on Windows.
11. 

    george

    December 11th, 8:36 am #

    Thanks mate for your tip!!
12. 

    Tiago Adami

    December 14th, 9:36 am #

    This works also when installing Rails from RubyGems:

    gem update –system
    gem update –system
    gem install rails –include-dependencies

    Thx again, Alex.
13. 

    Ranu Mandan

    August 7th, 7:05 am #

    first of all,. check your ruby bin folder for zlib.dll
    in mine case there was zlib1.dll , so instead of renaming the zlib1.dll , i copied it with different name zlib.dll
    and that solved the issue.