Problem with gem

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Hello,

I am trying to install ROR in Ubuntu on my virtualbox VM. I followed the instruction on Documents for installation of the same.As i am working in office where we have to deal with proxy; i have also set the appropriate proxy. after installing Rubygems, I can do

$ sudo gem update

but cannot do $ sudo gem update --system

or even $ sudo gem install ..............

The Error which I am getting is

ERROR: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ does not appear to be a repository ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)     Errno::ETIMEDOUT: Connection timed out - connect(2) (http:// gems.rubyforge.org/yaml)

I am unable to understand where the problem is. Can anybody help please? :((

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Hi Manisha,

Actually Gem installation need enough memory on your server/system and Bandwidth. or if it is not just download that gem and install specific. like : gem install rails-2.0.2.gem,

Thanks, DeployD.