title: More gem install rails headache
body: <p>Trying to install rails on windows. Downloaded the latest ruby exec and installed it, downloaded, unpacked rails. Upon gem install rails I get the dreaded</p>
  
  <pre><code>ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'rails' (&gt;= 0) in any repository
  ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
  Errno::ETIMEDOUT: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly  respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. - connect(2) (http://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz)
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  <p>What I've done so far:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>Checked my proxy (I'm behind the company proxy), added the -p option, --http-proxy and all possible variations of the proxy URL, to no avail</p></li>
  <li><p>Tried removing/adding another source besides rubygems.org, doesn't work either</p></li>
  <li><p>Downloaded and unpacked rails source, can't seem to be able to install it either</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>This is very discouraging and getting quite annoying. I should mention I have no choice but to use windows</p>