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For some weeks now I simply can’t run gem install in windows. It sticks on this line:
C:\Windows\System32>gem install rails --version 2.1.2 Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ Any ideas what it could be?
Have you been able to install stuff previously?
The gem index is pretty big, about 26MB it seems – what sort of connection do you have? If you have dialup (or 512kbit ‘broadband’ etc), it will take quite a while to update.
You could just grab the rails gem file and install it with
gem install rails.gem– http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=307Alternatively you could use one of the prepackage-rails installers, for example InstantRails