From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2011-07-29T22:17:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't install Gems on Windows 7

Ronald Fischer wrote in post #1013707:
>> gem install fxruby
> ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'fxruby' (>= 0) in any repository
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
>     Errno::ETIMEDOUT: A connection attempt failed because the connected
> party did not properly res
> pond after a period of time, or established connection failed because
> connected host has failed to
>  respond. - connect(2) (http://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz)
>
> When I do a
>

This seems to be a network connection issue.

Are you behind a firewall/proxy?

If you're behind a proxy, you need to use HTTP_PROXY environment 
variable or --http-proxy setting on gem install

the syntax of the setting is a URI:

http://user:pass@proxy-server:port

Please check your browser settings to see if you have that and set the 
variable:

set HTTP_PROXY=http://user:pass@proxy-server:port

or use in the gem command:

gem install fxruby --http-proxy=http://...

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