From: Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...>
Date: 2010-10-28T06:02:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem installing win32-api gem on Windows

On 10/27/2010 3:49 PM, Mike G. wrote:
>> I can't offer a suggestion for your build problems, but have you tried
>> downloading the gem itself manually the same way you did for the source
>> code zip file and then have gem install that?  One of these links should
>> get you what you need:
>>
>> http://rubygems.org/downloads/win32-api-1.0.4-mswin32.gem
>> http://rubygems.org/downloads/win32-api-1.0.4-x86-...
>>
>> Then, assuming you used the first link, simply run:
>>
>> gem install win32-api-1.0.4-mswin32.gem
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks, Jeremy.  That took care of my problem.
> 
> I didn't know about those downloads.

No problem.  The rubygems.org site is pretty handy.

I'm curious, are you using a proxy or something to get around the
firewall in order to manually download the gem file?  If so, you should
be able to tell gem to use that same proxy directly (see the -p option)
and save yourself some hassle in the future.  This workaround would have
been painful if the gem had had any dependencies of significance.

-Jeremy