From: Wu Junchen Date: 2007-12-26T21:40:37+09:00 Subject: gem install can not work in Cygwin Ruby1.9? $ ruby -v ruby 1.9.0 (2007-12-25 revision 14709) [i386-cygwin] 'gem install **' will raise Timeout::Error forever in Cygwin Ruby1.9! ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError) execution expired (Timeout::Error) getting size of http://gems.rubyforge.org/Marshal.4.8 However,I can get 'http://gems.rubyforge.org/Marshal.4.8' quickly use some code in irb: irb(main):001:0> require 'net/http' => true irb(main):002:0> http = Net::HTTP.new('gems.rubyforge.org',80) => # irb(main):003:0> request = Net::HTTP::Head.new('/Marshal.4.8') => # irb(main):004:0> resp = http.request request => # 'gem install **' will work fine both in my windows Ruby1.9 and in Ubuntu Ruby1.9,and they are all compiled from the same source. I have try more than 20 times,and 'gem install **' will raise Timeout::Error forever,how can I resolve it? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.