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Trying to install rails on windows. Downloaded the latest ruby exec and installed it, downloaded, unpacked rails. Upon gem install rails I get the dreaded

ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'rails' (>= 0) in any repository
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
Errno::ETIMEDOUT: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly  respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. - connect(2) (http://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz)

What I've done so far:

  • Checked my proxy (I'm behind the company proxy), added the -p option, --http-proxy and all possible variations of the proxy URL, to no avail

  • Tried removing/adding another source besides rubygems.org, doesn't work either

  • Downloaded and unpacked rails source, can't seem to be able to install it either

This is very discouraging and getting quite annoying. I should mention I have no choice but to use windows

Jerome
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  • This might be helpful to you -> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2238340/how-can-i-get-past-http-gems-rubyforge-org-does-not-appear-to-be-a-repository – Pankaj Sep 15 '11 at 12:13
  • It's basically variations around the proxy switch, which I've tried already – Jerome Sep 15 '11 at 12:21

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I have followed this link for installing ruby with RubyInstaller. For Rails you should follow this link. If you follow these 2 links you will able to install Ruby as well as Rails in windows. I have used this 2 links with great effect and it works for me.

Dibyendu Basu
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  • I have Ruby and gem already, the Rails link just says run gem install rails, which is precisely what isn't working. I'm nearly certain it's the proxy, but why doesn't the -p switch work ? – Jerome Sep 15 '11 at 12:22
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I am having the same problem, with also a proxy probably being the problem. From another forum post of mine I was directed to this link: https://github.com/rails/rails/downloads where I was able to download Rails manually. Now I just have to figure out how to install it manually. And hope it doesn't have a million dependencies.

Here is the link to the other forum: http://www.redmine.org/boards/2/topics/26224?r=26230#message-26230

My other two forum posts have not yeilded any takers yet, other than one person telling me what I already know about dependencies.

Redmine installation - ruby rails 2.3.11 manual download

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