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Laxman Kumar

13 Aug, 2010 10:00 PM

while installing gems i am getting

ERROR: http://rubygems.org/ does not appear to be a repository
ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'rails' (>= 0) in any repository

See the details below

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
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C:\>cd ruby

C:\ruby>gem update --system --no-rdoc --no-ri
Updating RubyGems
ERROR:  http://rubygems.org/ does not appear to be a repository
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
    Errno::ETIMEDOUT: A connection attempt failed because the connected party di
d not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed
because connected host has failed to respond. - connect(2) (http://rubygems.org/
yaml)

C:\ruby>gem -v
1.3.7

C:\ruby>gem env
RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.7
  - RUBY VERSION: 1.9.1 (2010-07-02 patchlevel 429) [i386-mingw32]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: C:/Ruby191/bin/ruby.exe
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: C:/Ruby191/bin
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86-mingw32
  - GEM PATHS:
     - C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1
     - N:/.gem/ruby/1.9.1
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :benchmark => false
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - http://rubygems.org/

C:\ruby>

1. Support Staff 2 Posted by Nick Quaranto on 14 Aug, 2010 04:19 PM

   

   Are you behind a proxy or firewall?

   There's information about setting a HTTP proxy up here: http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/13#page51

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