# Install Hanging

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/install-hanging/17173>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [25 March 2005 19:49 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/install-hanging/17173 "2005-03-25T19:49:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![dougbreault](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ea924/32.png) [@dougbreault](https://rubytalk.org/u/dougbreault)\
**Post date:** [25 March 2005 19:49 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/install-hanging/17173/1 "2005-03-25T19:49:51Z")

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Hi All,

I'm super newbie to Ruby/Rails etc.

I've been following a tutorial on the install. Gem installed great, but  
the next step is just hanging:

C:\ruby\bin\>gem install rails --remote

C:\ruby\bin\>"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "c:\ruby\bin\gem" install rails  
--remote

Attempting remote installation of 'rails'  
Updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)

(hangs here forever and ever)

This hangtime is occuring on both Windows XP and Windows 2000 Server.

I'm following this tutorial,  
[http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html](http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html)

Thanks for your help and tolerance, it's got to be something stupid.

Doug

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**Author:** ![Malte\_Milatz3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@Malte\_Milatz3](https://rubytalk.org/u/Malte_Milatz3)\
**Post date:** [25 March 2005 20:09 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/install-hanging/17173/2 "2005-03-25T20:09:48Z")

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dougbreault@yahoo.com:

> Attempting remote installation of 'rails'  
> Updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)
> 
> (hangs here forever and ever)

Are you sure it really hangs? Just try and wait a few (or more) minutes,  
because this step really takes a while.

Malte

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**Author:** ![Ramya\_Ramaswamy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d26b3c/32.png) [@Ramya\_Ramaswamy](https://rubytalk.org/u/Ramya_Ramaswamy)\
**Post date:** [26 March 2005 07:28 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/install-hanging/17173/3 "2005-03-26T07:28:14Z")

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The installation might take a while,but the process is real  
quick.Open up another command prompt and run this command netstat -n  
,to check if the connection is established.You would know if there is  
any time\_wait.  
Am a newbie too.Lemme know if this helps.

Regards  
Ramya

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> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 04:49:51 +0900, dougbreault@yahoo.com \<dougbreault@yahoo.com\> wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I'm super newbie to Ruby/Rails etc.
> > 
> > I've been following a tutorial on the install. Gem installed great, but  
> > the next step is just hanging:
> > 
> > C:\ruby\bin\>gem install rails --remote
> > 
> > C:\ruby\bin\>"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "c:\ruby\bin\gem" install rails  
> > --remote
> > 
> > Attempting remote installation of 'rails'  
> > Updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)
> > 
> > (hangs here forever and ever)
> > 
> > This hangtime is occuring on both Windows XP and Windows 2000 Server.
> > 
> > I'm following this tutorial,  
> > [Radar – O’Reilly](http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html)
> > 
> > Thanks for your help and tolerance, it's got to be something stupid.
> > 
> > Doug
> > 
> > Hey Doug,

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**Author:** ![Dido\_Sevilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Dido\_Sevilla](https://rubytalk.org/u/Dido_Sevilla)\
**Post date:** [26 March 2005 14:44 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/install-hanging/17173/4 "2005-03-26T14:44:34Z")

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It doesn't. It may be because you have a fairly slow connection.

This tells me that there's a UI problem with rubygems. The first time  
I tried this I though that there was such a problem too. I really  
think there ought to be some kind of "pacifier" like a twirly baton if  
not an honest to goodness progress bar, just to let the user know that  
it's actually doing something. Same thing too when having gems compile  
extensions.

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> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 04:49:51 +0900, dougbreault@yahoo.com \<dougbreault@yahoo.com\> wrote:
> 
> > C:\ruby\bin\>gem install rails --remote
> > 
> > C:\ruby\bin\>"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "c:\ruby\bin\gem" install rails  
> > --remote
> > 
> > Attempting remote installation of 'rails'  
> > Updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)
> > 
> > (hangs here forever and ever)

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**Author:** ![dougbreault](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ea924/32.png) [@dougbreault](https://rubytalk.org/u/dougbreault)\
**Post date:** [25 March 2005 20:14 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/install-hanging/17173/5 "2005-03-25T20:14:49Z")

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Oh wow you weren't kidding. The y/n just appeared. Thought for sure I'd  
run it overnight on my system at home (win2000server) to avoid this  
very possibility, not sure what happened.

Thanks for the quick reply,  
-Doug