Its Me wrote:

>C:\DOCUME~1\DESMOND>gem -i rubygems
>Attempting local installation of 'rubygems'
> -> Local installation can't proceed: Unknown gem file 'rubygems'
>Attempting remote installation of 'rubygems'
>Successfully installed rubygems-update version 0.8.1
>
>C:\DOCUME~1\DESMOND>gem -i rails
>Attempting local installation of 'rails'
> -> Local installation can't proceed: Unknown gem file 'rails'
>Attempting remote installation of 'rails'
>undefined method `version_requirement' for #<Gem::Dependency:0x53a52d8>
>  
>

In both instances you are trying to do a "local" install, which means 
you are trying to install from a gem repository that is on the same 
machine. You want to do a remote install.

"gem install --remote rails" should do what you want


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