Thursday, November 1, 2012

Unable to install gems when using gem version 1.8.24 on windows


So, i just upgraded my ruby to 1.9.3, and installed the latest gem version 1.8.4.

After installing DevKit and everything i tried to install rails on my system. I wrote

gem install rails

and after a second got this error

ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
    SocketError: getaddrinfo: No such host is known.  (http://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz)

ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'rails' (>= 0) in any repository
ERROR:  Possible alternatives: rails