Rails installation problem on windows

[fzacharia]

Hi
I installed ruby and mysql .And when tried from prompt
gem install rails --include-dependencies
it gives the error

ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
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)(Errno::ETIMEDOUT)
Please help

Felix

[fzacharia]

On Aug 23, 12:00 pm, Felix Z. [email protected]
wrote:

host has failed to respond. - connect(2)(Errno::ETIMEDOUT)
Please help

Felix

Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

It could be that you have a firewall blocking the connection or
similar.
Try to open it up for gem.

[fzacharia]

Just do
set http_proxy=http://ipaddress:port