Severe issue with rspec --init about curriculum HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi Roman,

I'm a fellow student running windows - but I had no issue installing rspec. The issue seems to be related to jruby? I think? I'm running Ruby 1.9.3. Are you running jruby?

Anyways, it looks like he was just linking to the open github issue. Hopefully they'll have that fixed soon.

Until then it might be helpful to uninstall rspec

gem uninstall rspec 

and then re-install using the last usable version

gem install rspec -v 2.14.8

If that doesn't work you might be able to hunt through the various releases of rspec until you find one that works for you. Just avoid the beta releases and don't forget to uninstall the previous version before you install again. If you happen to find a version that works then it might be easier to provide other students with instructions to install that version of rspec until the guys working on that repository get this fixed.

I hope this is helpful.

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I'll try doing that, but, actually, the installation (appeared to) happen without issue. Only started having problems when I ran --init.

Edit. Nope. Didn't work. Uninstalled. Installed. No issue. rspec --init. Error message from hell.

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The version you gave me wasn't in the repositories. Not sure what happened the first time. Anyway, I finally figured things out. Please update the curriculum so that no one else has to go this god awful yak shaving quest.

Scroll down to my answer.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25858155/rspec-init-not-working-mkd-ir-invalid-argument-c-errnoeinval/25860824#25860824

I can close the issue once this or something like it is added as a note for windows users.

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Hi Roman, you can edit the course yourself - and you should! You earned it by figuring out a solution and you should get credit for it IMO.

I would just go to the course page and go to edit it, like I was adding a solution - but instead you format and phrase a note somewhere in the instruction piece stating how to prevent this from a happening. The changes will highlight and then @eriktrautman can decide if he wants to edit the phrasing or if it's good as is.

Thanks for figuring this out. I got lucky and finished Rspec in web 101 prior to the new version of Rspec being deployed.

There is another module coming up though - so it's good to know about this.

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Sent the pull request just now. Once it's accepted, I'll close the issue.

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