From: Ramya Ramaswamy <rumyaiyer@...>
Date: 2005-03-26T16:28:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Install Hanging

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 04:49:51 +0900, dougbreault@yahoo.com
<dougbreault@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm super newbie to Ruby/Rails etc.
> 
> I've been following a tutorial on the install. Gem installed great, but
> the next step is just hanging:
> 
> C:\ruby\bin>gem install rails --remote
> 
> C:\ruby\bin>"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "c:\ruby\bin\gem" install rails
> --remote
> 
> Attempting remote installation of 'rails'
> Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
> 
> (hangs here forever and ever)
> 
> This hangtime is occuring on both Windows XP and Windows 2000 Server.
> 
> I'm following this tutorial,
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html
> 
> Thanks for your help and tolerance, it's got to be something stupid.
> 
> Doug
> 
> Hey Doug,

   The installation might take a while,but the process is real
quick.Open up another command prompt and run this command   netstat -n
 ,to check if the connection is established.You would know if there is
any time_wait.
Am a newbie too.Lemme know if this helps.

Regards
Ramya