I'm no authority on ROR on cygwin66.... Not making any promises.... Did a little research, and found this at: http://code.openhub.net/file?fid=_l-OijNPFX7fzeTZ7tG1bdwGj-U&cid=teq11amO2NQ&s=&fp=299059&mp&projSelected=true#L0
It's setup.rb, obviously you can search your environment for setup.rb to trace the rbconfig error...... Seems that if rubygems are already loaded you will get a rbconfig error. #-- # Copyright 2006, 2007 by Chad Fowler, Rich Kilmer, Jim Weirich, Eric Hodel # and others. # All rights reserved. # See LICENSE.txt for permissions. #++ if RUBY_VERSION < "1.8.7" $stderr.puts "Rubygems now requires Ruby 1.8.7 or later" exit 1 end # Make sure rubygems isn't already loaded. if ENV['RUBYOPT'] or defined? Gem then ENV.delete 'RUBYOPT' require 'rbconfig' config = defined?(RbConfig) ? RbConfig : Config ruby = File.join config::CONFIG['bindir'], config::CONFIG['ruby_install_name'] ruby << config::CONFIG['EXEEXT'] cmd = [ruby, 'setup.rb', *ARGV].compact cmd[1,0] = "--disable-gems" if RUBY_VERSION > "1.9" exec(*cmd) end Dir.chdir File.dirname(__FILE__) $:.unshift 'lib' require 'rubygems' require 'rubygems/gem_runner' require 'rubygems/exceptions' Gem::CommandManager.instance.register_command :setup args = ARGV.clone if ENV["GEM_PREV_VER"] args = [ '--previous-version', ENV["GEM_PREV_VER"] ] + args end args.unshift 'setup' begin Gem::GemRunner.new.run args rescue Gem::SystemExitException => e exit e.exit_code end So first I would try echo $RUBYOPT I believe that it should return empty, which may indicate that gems are already installed Then I would try.... skip ruby setup, and try Following the instructions from https://rubygems.org/pages/download#formats gem update --system Hope this help.... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/410542dc-bbed-4638-bc50-1799263eadba%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.