Can't install gem

[digitalheir]

Tring to install this gem on Rails 4.0 using Ruby 2.0, I get the folling error after both bundler install and gem install:

Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.0.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/octokit-2.1.2/spec/cassettes/Octokit_Client_PullRequests/methods_that_require_a_new_pull/methods_requiring_a_pull_request_comment/_create_pull_request_comment_reply/creates_a_new_reply_to_a_pull_request_comment.json
An error occurred while installing octokit (2.1.2), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install octokit -v '2.1.2'` succeeds before bundling.

I think the path name is too long for the Windows file system.

[Kenshin]

I also encountered this problem, could you tell me is how to solve @digitalheir

[joeyw]

Windows has 260 character path limit, in this case the path length is 268. A temporary solution is to make a new folder to install the gems into instead of the C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.0.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/ path such as c:\temp_gems by adding a GEM_HOME environmental variable. Once you add it and restart the command prompt Octokit should install.

[digitalheir]

What I did was

> gem env

It showed two paths:

- GEM PATHS:
   - C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.0.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0
   - C:/Users/Maarten/.gem/ruby/2.0.0

I picked the latter, and set it through set GEM_HOME=C:/Users/Maarten/.gem/ruby/2.0.0

[nikolay]

Why is this issue closed? It's obvious that Octokit cannot be installed properly on Windows and needs dirty workarounds, which aren't documented. Can you make the directory nesting and naming a bit more sane? I don't use Windows much, but I don't recall any other major RubyGem to have such issue.

[catsby]

@pengwynn can we do without this in the gemspec?

spec.files += Dir.glob("spec/**/*")

Seems like that may resolve this very long path issues expressed here.

[digitalheir]

I closed this issue because the issue was solved for me. Considering that we're in a bug tracker, and yes, this is a bug, I'll reopen it.

[nikolay]

@digitalheir Thank you! I really want to take advantage of the beautiful new Releases API, but without the ugly workarounds and, unfortunately, my stuff needs to run under Windows as well.

[pengwynn]

@catsby Good idea. Just opened #318.

@nikolay or @digitalheir, can one of you pull that branch and try to install the gem on Windows with rake install ?

[nikolay]

@pengwynn I will try in a few hours. Thanks!

[pengwynn]

@nikolay Thanks. I just merged #318 into master because I'm prepping a release for an unrelated issue. If this is still an issue on that new release, please reopen.

[nikolay]

Great!

[nikolay]

@pengwynn Thanks! It works just fine on Windows now!

[pengwynn]

🤘

[catsby]