Problem installing gems

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There aren't any proxies on this network. I have a standard network
setup with just a firewall that allows outbound access for everything.
I have also tried switching on and off the windows firewall which hasn't
made any difference.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Weirich [mailto:jim@weirichhouse.org]
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 10:10 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Problem installing gems

Robert Isaacs said:
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I get the following message:

    Upgrading installed gems...
    Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org

and it freezes there forever.

One other interesting fact that might be useful is that wget also
fails on this desktop as well. It times out on *sending* the http

request.

Hmmm ... what is the proxy situation on that particular box? Browsers
tend to pick up the proxy configuration automatically, but many tools
(perhaps including wget) need a http_proxy environment variable set.

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