Thanks, Carl, that was it! I have Vista, but your little hint told me it was HOME=C: that was wanted.
Heroku and Herokugarden gems now installed and hopefully all will be happy. Thanks! On May 26, 6:48 pm, Carl Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > What version of windows are you running? on my Windows XP box I have > HOMEPATH set to "\Documents and Settings\Username" and I don't have a > HOME var. Closest I have is HOMEDRIVE and it is set to "C:". > > Carl > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Ed Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > > hey, i cannot now install gems. > > > we were trying to run a certain gem, and some help file told us to > > change the HOME environment var--I think. > > > Anyway, if you use Windows, what are your HOME and HOMEPATH vars set > > to (to see them, type SET into the command line). > > > Thanks! > > > Ed > > PS My error on running >gem install anything is: > > > C:\Users\Ed>gem install heroku > > ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::ENOENT) > > No such file or directory - "C:\Users\Ed\" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
