From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2006-02-16T14:54:06+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie trouble with RubyGems

Don wrote:
> This is a newbie question.  I used OneClick to install Ruby onto my 
> Windows XP machine. OneClick installed RubyGems. When I try the command
> 
>        gem list –remote
> 
> the commands prints
> 
>      *** REMOTE GEMS ***
> 
> to the console and then just hangs.  Is there some config file somewhere 
> where I am supposed to tell “gem” where to look for remote gems?

If you are behind a firewall and need an http proxy, make sure that you 
have your http_proxy environment variable set correctly.

And sometimes the command takes a few minutes to complete when 
downloading the master gem index from rubyforge.  Make sure that it is 
really hung and not just slow.

-- Jim Weirich

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