From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2009-03-18T07:11:16+09:00
Subject: Re: gem hanging in Windows

On Mar 16, 2009, at 16:45, Michael Satterwhite wrote:

> I'm trying to setup an environment on a Windows XP machine. Note: I do
> (almost) all my work in Linux.
>
> I'm trying to run a "gem install" on the Windows box. Immediately  
> after
> the command, I get the message:
>
>   "Bulk updating Gem source index for http://gems.rubyforge.org"
>
> At that point, it appears to hang. On the chance that it was just
> running very slowly, I've allowed this to sit there for 4 hours (so
> far), but it's not continuing.
>
> Any ideas on how to proceed?

Upgrade RubyGems manually (search 'manually'):

http://rubyforge.org/frs/shownotes.php?group_id=126&release_id=27655