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Help please! Topic is right but I don't understand what this particapant is saying. My issue is building shoes on windows. My output from rake command = C:\shoes_dev>rake "downloading http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingwrt-3.15.2-mingw32-dll.tar.gz...

No easynews on sourceforge according to my browser.

Could we please let ashbb know that this is not working for the rubyinstaller? I tried changing the :url in the config/ruby_installer.rb to http://www.rin-shun.com/shoes/MinGW/downloads Then rake again = C:\shoes_dev>rake "downloading...

Like I stated previously, I have already downloaded everything from this directory = http://www.rin-shun.com/shoes/MinGW/downloads/ Why should it be doing this again?

I have shoes working but just thought I might try to build it. Thanks @jrgifford

K! Thanks @ashbb I got some of the way into this by getting ride of all the download tasks that I did find in all the rake files. It went...

ruby-1.9.3-p286.tar.gz is out now and another shoes page is here http://www.rin-shun.com/shoes/

@ashbb perhaps you could tell us what the rake files use for a downloader. I was not able to get any of that to work in spite of changing all...

@ashbb It didn't do that. I did what I stated before above. I got the newer ruby-1.9.3-p125.tar.gz and put it into the downloads dir. I had to change the config/ruby_installer.rb...

I ran rake again from the C:\shoes_dev and this time there were no errors. But I still don't have a shoes folder in the sandbox.