# Rails installation

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-installation/150171>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 5, 2008, 9:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-installation/150171 "2008-10-05T09:47:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 9:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-installation/150171/1 "2008-10-05T09:47:08Z")

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Hi,

I am new to Rails. I installed ruby in my system and when I try to  
install rails it is giving error and later I realized that my proxy  
server is blocking the rails gem download. So I downloaded the  
rails2.1 gem and what is the gem install command to install rails.

Please help me I am totally on hold because of this. Expecting a  
quick reply 🙂

Thanks,  
Ramu.

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 2:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-installation/150171/2 "2008-10-05T14:00:44Z")

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On Oct 5, 8:46 am, “removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am new to Rails. I installed ruby in my system and when I try to  
> install rails it is giving error and later I realized that my proxy  
> server is blocking the rails gem download. So I downloaded the  
> rails2.1 gem and what is the gem install command to install rails.

gem help install should help you out.

Fred

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-installation/150171/3 "2008-10-05T15:45:40Z")

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I did that. But it was asked for rake 0.8 then I installed rake. Now  
it is asking for Active support. Is there any package with all the  
gems??

Thanks,  
Ramu.

On Oct 5, 5:00 pm, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-installation/150171/4 "2008-10-06T18:11:33Z")

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Not sure if this will help, but gems will traverse a proxy server if you  
tell it where to go by setting an environment variable like so:

http\_proxy=http://win\_username:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid:port\_number

So for me it’d be something like:

http\_proxy=http://win\_username:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid:8080

I normally set that manually on a command line & then issue the  
appropriate gem command.

HTH,

-Roy