From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-04-01T05:00:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Need help installing ruby and libraries

On Mar 31, 3:25 pm, Jaime Stuardo <jstua...@security.cl> wrote:
> Hello...
>
> This is the information you requested.
>
> RubyGems Environment:
>   - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.6
>   - RUBY VERSION: 1.9.1 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 378) [i386-mingw32]
>   - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: C:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1
>   - RUBY EXECUTABLE: C:/Ruby19/bin/ruby.exe
>   - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: C:/Ruby19/bin
>   - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
>     - ruby
>     - x86-mingw32
>   - GEM PATHS:
>      - C:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1
>      - C:/Documents and Settings/jstuardo/.gem/ruby/1.9.1
>   - GEM CONFIGURATION:
>      - :update_sources => true
>      - :verbose => true
>      - :benchmark => false
>      - :backtrace => false
>      - :bulk_threshold => 1000
>   - REMOTE SOURCES:
>      -http://rubygems.org/
>
> I am administrator of my computer.
>
> Rake version is rake-0.8.7 downloaded fromhttp://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=50
>
> What do you mean it is distributed as a gem? From the link above it is mentioned the file as rake-0.8.7.gem, but when I click on it, a .tar file is downloaded.

I don't understand why you manually download it:

gem install rake
gem install rails

Both should work, if not:

1) You're not connected to internet
2) You're behind a proxy (is your browser using a proxy
configuration?)

If so, need to do --http-proxy=http://user:pass@server:port/

See: gem help install

3) There is a firewall that is limiting all the downloads from Amazon
S3, where all the gems from rubygems.org are located.

>
> Finally, I tell you that I downloaded rails-2.2.3.gem fromhttp://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=307but the same as above, a .tar file was actually downloaded.
>

It might be that your browser is not identifying the files with proper
mime-type, but .gem is not a tar file, but instead 2 .tar and gz'ed
files inside.

--
Luis Lavena