Problem installing Rails

[more2hari]

Hi
I am getting the following error when i tried to install rails in
windows using command prompt…

Attempting remote installation of ‘rails’
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteSourceException)
Error fetching remote gem cache: getaddrinfo: no address associated
with hostname.

There are proxy settings in my institute and i need to set it up from
the command prompt? pls explain with an example…

Thanks in Advance…

[more2hari]

On 3/27/06, Hari N. [email protected] wrote:

There are proxy settings in my institute and i need to set it up from
the command prompt? pls explain with an example…

Hari,

You can tell gem to use a proxy server by (I believe) either setting the
HTTP_PROXY environment variable, or by setting the -p (–http-proxy)
flag
when invoking gem. e.g.

$ export HTTP_PROXY=http://myproxy:80/
$ gem install foo

or

$ gem install --http-proxy http://myproxy:80/ foo

~ j.

[more2hari]

I’m not the best person to answer Windows questions. Haven’t used it for
a good long while. (emphasis on the ‘good’)

But if you know the url for your proxy, you can set up gem to go through
it

Look here:
http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/13

in section 5.10

-sean

Hari N. wrote:

Hi
I am getting the following error when i tried to install rails in
windows using command prompt…

Attempting remote installation of ‘rails’
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteSourceException)
Error fetching remote gem cache: getaddrinfo: no address associated
with hostname.

There are proxy settings in my institute and i need to set it up from
the command prompt? pls explain with an example…

Thanks in Advance…

[more2hari]

Hi,
In Windows, you can directly set the environment variables in the
command prompt. Set the variables HTTP_PROXY, HTTP_PROXY_USER and
HTTP_PROXY_PASS, and then execute “gem install rails --remote”.
This should make it work.
Thanks!!!

[more2hari]

thanx but i’m using windows and tats the problemm…if it hab been linux
i could have installed it earlier itself

John B. wrote:

On 3/27/06, Hari N. [email protected] wrote:

There are proxy settings in my institute and i need to set it up from
the command prompt? pls explain with an example…

Hari,

You can tell gem to use a proxy server by (I believe) either setting the
HTTP_PROXY environment variable, or by setting the -p (–http-proxy)
flag
when invoking gem. e.g.

$ export HTTP_PROXY=http://myproxy:80/
$ gem install foo

or

$ gem install --http-proxy http://myproxy:80/ foo

~ j.

[more2hari]

John B. wrote:

On 3/27/06, Hari N. [email protected] wrote:

There are proxy settings in my institute and i need to set it up from
the command prompt? pls explain with an example…

Hari,

You can tell gem to use a proxy server by (I believe) either setting the
HTTP_PROXY environment variable, or by setting the -p (–http-proxy)
flag
when invoking gem. e.g.

$ export HTTP_PROXY=http://myproxy:80/
$ gem install foo

or

$ gem install --http-proxy http://myproxy:80/ foo

~ j.

EXCELENTE ME FUNCIONO CON
set HTTP_PROXY=http://MIPROXY:8080/