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Article:		Rolling with Ruby on Rails
Subject:		difficulty installing
Date:		2005-01-26 10:41:07
From:		Challman
I'm behind a corporate firewall and proxy (with authentication). I can't get the "gem install rails --remote" to establish a connection. I've tried pointing local but it keeps looking to the 'net. I downloaded and ran install.rb for actionmailer, actionpack, activerecord and rake. I then tried "gem install rails" but it failed again. I then did a --force and it appeared to install: C:\rails>gem install rails.gem --force Attempting local installation of 'rails.gem' Successfully installed rails, version 0.9.5 Installing RDoc documentation for rails-0.9.5... WARNING: Generating RDoc on .gem that may not have RDoc. lib/rails_generator.rb:34:46: Skipping require of dynamic string: "#{path}/#{nam e}_generator.rb" However, I can't execute "rails cookbook". Here is what I get: C:\rails>rails cookbook c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:131:in `activate': (Gem::LoadError) Could not find RubyGem rake (>= 0.4.15) from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:150:in `activate' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:149:in `each' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:149:in `activate' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:34:in `require_gem' from c:/ruby/bin/rails:18 I've googled and searched and read but I still can't find something that helps. Any ideas?

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• difficulty installing
  2005-02-02 02:49:27  Chilli [View]
  
  
  try setting the enviroment variable HTTP_PROXY this worked for me.
  
  Windows: set HTTP_PROXY="http://proxyurl:8080"
  Linux/Bash: export HTTP_PROXY="http://proxyurl:8080"

• difficulty installing
  2005-01-26 11:02:01  Challman [View]
  
  
  Wow! I finally got this working. I had to
  
  1. download and run setup.rb fro rubygems
  2. download, run install.rb and gem install actionmailer.gem
  3. download, run install.rb and gem install actionpack.gem
  4. download, run install.rb and gem install activerecord.gem
  5. download, run install.rb and gem install rake.gem
  
  Then I was able to get "gem install rails" to work properly. I'm now able to run "rails cookbook".
  
  Anyone have any idea why this was so difficult for my besides the fact that I'm on a M$ server? :)
• difficulty installing
  2005-01-26 11:20:23  Curt Hibbs | [View]
  
  
  It shouldn't be that difficult (although, congrats on finding a workaround!).
  
  Basically, you downloaded the "gems" (ruby packages, similar to jar files) manually and then installed them. This bypassed the need to get through your proxy server.

• difficulty installing
  2005-01-26 10:57:36  Curt Hibbs | [View]
  
  
  For non-authenticating proxys you can do this:
  
  gem install rails -p http://<proxy-url>
  
  I don't know how to do authenticating proxy's, but I've got a query in with the RubyGems developers and as soon as I know, I will post it here.
• difficulty installing
  2005-11-14 09:38:02  elaveriao [View]
  
  
  With an authenticating proxy, I have used
  
  gem install rails -p http://user@pass:proxy-url
  
  and it has worked
  
  HTH
• difficulty installing
  2005-12-09 06:13:57  Plog [View]
  
  
  If you'r like me, behind a firewall/auth. proxy/etc... You can use HTTrack (http://www.httrack.com/) to get all gems at once. You'll be then able to install everything offline
  
  On Linux :
  
  # httrack http://rubyforge.lauschmusik.de/gems/ -O /MygemsDir -P username:password@your.proxy.xxx:port
  
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