From: Aldric Giacomoni <aldric@...>
Date: 2010-04-01T00:04:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Need help installing ruby and libraries

Brian Candler wrote:
> Jaime Stuardo wrote:
>> C:\Documents and Settings\jstuardo>gem install rails
>> ERROR:  http://gems.rubyforge.org/ does not appear to be a repository
> 
> Are you behind a proxy firewall by any chance? Do you need to configure 
> your browser with proxy settings before you can access the Internet? If 
> so I think you'll need to tell Ruby that too. (Unix would be http_proxy 
> environment variable, not sure about Windows)
> 
> You could also see what this does:
> 
> telnet gems.rubyforge.org 80
> GET / HTTP/1.0
> 
> (then hit enter twice). If you get a page of HTML back, you don't need a 
> proxy. If it fails to connect at all, maybe you do.

Since rubygems says 'nothing to update', I will guess it does a correct 
version check, so he does not need a proxy.
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I had an issue like his before, and the answer had been to remove and 
readd the repository:
gem source -r http://gems.rubyforge.org
gem source -a http://gems.rubyforge.org

Now.. I'm wondering why the source isn't the gemcutter source to begin 
with!

I think you should try this:

gem source -a http://gemcutter.org
gem install rails
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If this fails, I found these instructions:

gem install rails --source http://gems.rubyonrails.org

indicates that "rake" is not up to date, I found a mirror 
http://de.mirror.rubyforge.org/gems/ and downloaded rake-0.8.7.gem,

and

gem install rake-0.8.7.gem
then

gem install rails --source http://gems.rubyonrails.org
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