From: "O. Sapauschke" <osapauschke@...>
Date: 2008-07-12T02:01:57+09:00
Subject: Re: gem update

Jos辿 Cruz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm behind a firewall. How can I update ruby modules?
> 
> If I try to do a
> 
>>gem update --system 
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
>     getaddrinfo: no address associated with hostname.(SocketError)
> 
> PS: Windows XP SP3 - Ruby 1.8.6
> 
> 
> Thanks!

Hi,

if its a proxy problem u can try to set an environment variable in 
windows
via <Control Panel:System:Advanced:Environment Variables>
HTTP_PROXY = http://usr:pwd@myproxy:port

it worked for me ;-)
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