From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2011-04-29T21:20:39+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygems down ?

On Apr 29, 4:55 am, Michel Demazure <mic...@demazure.com> wrote:
> Is it a rubygems problem or an error of mine ? For two days now :
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Michel>gem update
> Updating installed gems
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
>     SocketError: getaddrinfo: H¶te inconnu.
> (http://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz)
>

Can you browse rubygems.org and download gems from the browser?

Are you or were you behind a proxy?

If so, please use --http-proxy with gem install:


gem install foo --http-proxy=http://user:pass@server:port/

Get the proxy information from your current browser.

--
Luis Lavena