From: ruby rails Date: 2008-03-12T18:28:11+09:00 Subject: problem instralling gems I have problems installing gems on my ubuntu 7.04 machine. i haver installed ruby 1.8.6 and rubygems 1.0.x. I am directly connected to internet. When i try to install the gems , it throes some wierd errors sucha as: ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError) No route to host - connect(2) (Errno::EHOSTUNREACH) getting size of http://gems.rubyforge.org/Marshal.4.8 the reason , i couldnt figure out . Now i downloaded the gem from "http://rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/gems/" and again tried to install the gem moving to that directory. The same is thrownup this time..what could be the obvious error? any help/suggestions greatly appreciated.. ragards, venkat -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.