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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Connection attempt Failed for Ruby gem update --system (Solved for windows users)

I encountered while trying to update ruby gem and took my more than 1 hour to search for the solution and have to go through lots of blogs and scroll through the comments to finally get the right answer.

When i did gem update --system then i got the following error:

ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly res
pond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected
host has failed to respond. - connect(2) (Errno::ETIMEDOUT)
getting size of http://gems.rubyforge.org/Marshal.4.8

Solution

So this might be due to the connection to the site or the proxy problem

1 Go to your IE Internet options/connections/Lan Settings/

2. Check your proxy and its port

3. go to Command prompt and do

set http_proxy=http://proxy:port

Now do gem update --system

Should work now.....


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