From: Craig Moran <craig.m.moran.ruby@...>
Date: 2005-01-04T20:40:43+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyGems 0.8.4

Here's another tip that worked for me even though I am on a severely
locked down Windows 2000 box where I cannot set any Windows
environment variables such as HTTP_PROXY.  This line may be entered at
a command prompt:

"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "c:\ruby\bin\gem" install rails -p http://proxy:80

My ruby version using the One Click Installer
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]

Hope this helps someone.  Peace
Craig

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:46:34 +0900, firestar <theebh@gmail.com> wrote:
> I used gems to install rails on win2K, but not able to do so behind a
> proxy server. Even using the -p option does not help.
> 
> Only now I realise that by adding the 'HTTP_PROXY' environment variable
> in windows, the problem is solved! Just thought of sharing this tip
> here, as my previous google attempt did not seem to find this...