From: Jean Helou <jean.helou@...>
Date: 2007-01-17T17:42:23+09:00
Subject: Re: help me..Urgent...

To make gem work through a proxy all you have to do is  :
export http_proxy="http://<proxy_address>:<proxy_port>/"

in the shell before you run the gem command. I might be completely
wrong but it looks like a DNS problem more than a proxy problem to me.

cheers
jean

On 1/17/07, Sharon Phillips <phillipsds@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > This is often a sign your internet access is through a proxy server.
> > I've not worked out how to get gem to bypass this, but I did find I
> > could download and save the gems to the local machine (not sure of
> > url, but there is a place that makes all gems available in the one
> > spot).
> >
> > After you've downloaded them, run gem install from the directory
> > you have saved the gems to.
> > You are likely to get an error indicating a required dependency not
> > found. Note the dependency, download it and try again.
> > Messy, but it works. It's quite likely someone has a nicer solution.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dave
> >
> > On 17/01/2007, at 5:33 PM, Anjum Pathan wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all...
> >> PLZ help me
> >> I am new to both ruby and rails.
> >> I was trying to install rails on My FC5 machine but it didn't
> >> succeed...
> >>
> >> I have successfully installed latest version of Ruby on my
> >> machine, and Gems
> >> too....
> >> When I use command
> >>         "gem install rails --include-dependencies"
> >> I get following error...
> >>
> >>   "ERROR:  While executing gem ... (SocketError)
> >>       getaddrinfo: Temporary failure in name resolution "
> >>
> >> Can anybody solve my problem as early as possible????
> >>
> >> Thanks & Regards,
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> AnJuM PaThAn
> >
>
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