Ruby and rails just hangs -- Help!

if i do gem update rails --include-dependencies

it just sits there for hours

if i run Webrick it just hangs Ctrl-C does nothing

after i do the Webrick command and i go to http://localhost:3000/ i
get nothing…

I’m running Instant Rails 1.3a in windows xp…

Apache and mysql start fine…

normal scripts run fine like

Rails demo

ruby script/generate controller say

but Webrick and Gem don’t work at all. Ive downloaded instant rails 3
times…

what does

gem install rake

do?

repent, reboot, retry?