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Article:		Rolling with Ruby on Rails
Subject:		Installing Rails
Date:		2005-01-25 10:24:57
From:		curth
Response to: Installing Rails
I read your initial posting too quickly, I should have noticed that you mentioned your companies firewall. If this includes a proxy for web access, then you'll need to tell RubyGems about this when downloading/installing Rails. Use this: gem install -p http://<proxy-url> rails Good luck!

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• Installing Rails
  2005-01-26 00:36:12  APC [View]
  
  
  Thanks Curt. Passing the proxy URL was all I needed to do.
  
  Now I have the answer I realise that I could have googled for it and solved the problem yesterday. Doh!
  
  Have a better one, APC
  
  
• Installing Rails
  2005-11-25 12:49:48  Okki [View]
  
  
  You can also make an environment variable called http_proxy. I have set this in my environment variables and it worked immediately.
  
  http_proxy=http://your.proxy.host:port/
• Installing Rails
  2005-12-02 15:30:19  lena_ [View]
  
  
  If you are behind a firewall and http proxy is not available, you can download "rails" gem (rails*.gem) from http://rubyforge.org and install it using local gem installation.
  
  You may need to get other gems (.gem files) before rails installation succeeds. For instance, I had to also get all of these:
  rake
  activesupport
  activerecord
  actionpack
  actionmailer
  actionwebservice
  
  and install them in this order before finally installing rails:
  
gem install rake --include-dependencies
gem install activesupport --include-dependencies
...
gem install rails --include-dependencies

  
  Hope this helps.