On 1/17/07, Anjum Pathan <anjum.pathan / gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all...
> PLZ help me
> I am new to both ruby and rails.
> I was trying to install rails on My FC5 machine but it didn't succeed...
>
> I have successfully installed latest version of Ruby on my machine, and Gems
> too....
> When I use command
>          "gem install rails --include-dependencies"
> I get following error...
>
>    "ERROR:  While executing gem ... (SocketError)
>        getaddrinfo: Temporary failure in name resolution "
>
> Can anybody solve my problem as early as possible????
>
> Thanks & Regards,

Hi,

it's either that (1) you have a network problem, or that (2) rubyforge
gems are currently disabled due to security problem (see the long
thread about poisoned hoe for details). I don't know whether this has
been already resolved.