From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2009-02-23T18:50:33+09:00
Subject: Re: how to install wxruby2 offline

Alle Monday 23 February 2009, vaibhav kadian ha scritto:
> Hi
>
> This might not be the right question to ask at such a high tech group
> but as i want to learn it, i have to ask it somewhere.
>
> I have ruby 1.8.6 patch 111 and gem 1.0.1
>
> now i want wxruby2 but as the 'gem install wxruby2' tries to install
> from http://rubyforge.org, it timed out.
> I can see the files on http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=35. Can i
> download the tar files and install it locally?
> How? because i dont want to leave it to network to do it.......i know
> it sound wierd but i can download the files but unable to install.
>
> Need a way to install offline using a file wxruby2 and wxsugar

Yes, you can. Simply, give gem the path of the file you downloaded, instead of 
just the gem name:

gem install /path/to/downloaded/wxruby-something.gem

I hope this helps

Stefano