Would appreciate a workaround for this. On Apr 19, 1:58 pm, rubynewbie <mohamed.shaf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Bryan. I tried this as well as Using a Fiddler as a proxy. But > I found that the downloads are being blocked based on the content by > the firewall. Generally arbitrary Software Downloads are not permitted > in my company. > Theres a separate department which manages Software Downloads > based on requests they get for it and they provide us with the > installables. I have to approach them. But just worried how am I going > to explain the Rails packaging / installation procedure to them in > order for them to give me a Zip file that has all Rails and its > dependent gems. I think I may have to give up. > Wouldn't it be great if Rails has all the gems bundled into a > single archived file available for download? Thats how most Softwares > like Netbeans, Eclipse,Glassfish, JBOSS, Apache, MySQL, Postgre SQL , > etc are all delivered. This need not be at the cost doing away with > RubyGems installer and the benefits that come with it. Its just about > having the archived Rails and its dependencies available for download > in the Rails site. > Is there a way I can take this as a request to the guys in charge > of Rails? > > Thanks, > S > > On Apr 19, 12:51 am, Bryan Crossland <bacrossl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:54 AM, rubynewbie > > <mohamed.shaf...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > The problem is not inclusion of http:// in the URL(I tried without > > > that). On the contrary I suspect the reason to be on how to specify > > > the domain in the URL. Is my way of specifying the domain right? > > > > C:\Documents and Settings\Users\Desktop>gem install rails -v 3.0.1 -p > > >http://MYDOMAIN\myUserID:MyPassword@MyProxy:Port > > > I found this on StackOverflow where there were discussing setting the > > http-proxy environment variable for ISA to install a gem on Windows from > > behind a proxy. I don't think you need the domain if your admin has > > specified a default one to authenticate against. However if they have not, > > one of the comments suggested URI encoding the backslash. So you new string > > would look like this: > > >http://MYDOMAIN<http://mydomain/>%5myUserID:MyPassword@MyProxy:Port > > >http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4418/how-do-i-update-ruby-gems-fro... > > > B. > > > > Thanks, > > > > S > > > > On Apr 18, 6:42 pm, Bryan Crossland <bacrossl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:58 AM, rubynewbie <mohamed.shaf...@gmail.com > > > >wrote: > > > > > > I am new to Rails and have been facing difficulty while installing > > > > > rails. I have already installed Ruby and RubyGems on my machine by > > > > > downloading the packages. But when I install Rails through RubyGems > > > > > through a HTTP Proxy , I am thrown an error. Below is the details of > > > > > the command and the exception i am getting : > > > > > > Command Executed : > > > > > C:\Documents and Settings\Users\Desktop>gem install rails -v 3.0.1 -p > > > > >http://mydomain\myUserID:MyPassword@MyProxy:Port > > > > > > Error thrown : > > > > > > ERROR: While executing gem ... (OptionParser::InvalidArgument) > > > > > invalid argument: -phttp://myDomain\MyUserID:MyPassword@MyProxy:80 > > > > > > Please note that mydomain is the domain to which my User ID belongs. > > > > > The authentication is ISA i believe. > > > > > > Would appreciate some help in this. > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > > > S > > > > > Since you are calling an http proxy I don't think you need to specify > > > > http:// on the URL. I could be wrong. I don't have a proxy to test > > > against > > > > to confirm this. > > > > > B. > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
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