# Hal: Twisting a Rope (#137)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hal-twisting-a-rope-137/113941>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 6, 2007, 1:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hal-twisting-a-rope-137/113941 "2007-09-06T13:24:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![setiono](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/48db29/32.png) [@setiono](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/setiono)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 1:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hal-twisting-a-rope-137/113941/1 "2007-09-06T13:24:41Z")

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Hello Gustav, nice to know you.

I received your email, but sorry i don’t understand what you are talking  
about. I`m just started to learning programing. I`m a novice.

Actually i want to ask your favor to help me. I was trying to install  
ruby on rail on my pc but i was encountered a problem… After i was  
finished installing ruby (on windows sp 2), i could not install the  
rails gem. the error message show this:

ERROR: While executing gem … (SocketError) getaddrinfo: no address

> associated with hostname. C:\ruby\bin\>

Could you help to figure out what is my ROR installation problem and how  
to solve it.

thank to read my mail. I hope you will reply this mail as soon as  
possible.

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**Author:** ![setiono](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/48db29/32.png) [@setiono](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/setiono)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hal-twisting-a-rope-137/113941/2 "2007-09-06T14:56:53Z")

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Hi. I’m also new in the list, so hello everyone 🙂

On 9/6/07, ari setiono [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> ERROR: While executing gem … (SocketError) getaddrinfo: no address
> 
> > associated with hostname. C:\ruby\bin\>
> 
> Could you help to figure out what is my ROR installation problem and how  
> to solve it.
> 
> thank to read my mail. I hope you will reply this mail as soon as  
> possible.

Maybe you are behind a firewall? Or could it be a external proxy? Check  
that, the first time I installed RoR I was forgetting to add the -p  
switch  
to tell gem I was behind a proxy.

Diego.