I Cant Download From Rubyforge.org???

[Dutch Caramel]

I tried to download the windows installer on page http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167
Nothing on this page will work for me.
I just want to install Ruby on Rails on my Windows Vista Machine...I
was told to go to this page and get the most up to date "1 click
installer". It seems like that is very old so I tried to download the
following version: rubyinstaller-1.9.1-p378-rc2.exe

But I get an error every time, but only after my computer begins to
download at a very very slow transfer rate, it says it will take 3hrs
+ for only 10mb??

I can download normally from other websites but not this one. Does
anyone know what the problem is?
If this won't work, does anyone know how I can download and install
RoR on my system?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[Luis Lavena]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Dutch Caramel <sarahja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried to download the windows installer on page http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167
> Nothing on this page will work for me.
> I just want to install Ruby on Rails on my Windows Vista Machine...I
> was told to go to this page and get the most up to date "1 click
> installer". It seems like that is very old so I tried to download the
> following version: rubyinstaller-1.9.1-p378-rc2.exe
>
> But I get an error every time, but only after my computer begins to
> download at a very very slow transfer rate, it says it will take 3hrs
> + for only 10mb??
>
> I can download normally from other websites but not this one. Does
> anyone know what the problem is?

See this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/browse_thread/thread/33898dba9ac24097

More than the alternate drop.io links in this message:

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/msg/b34762da1fad277d

There is nothing we can do as we don't control RubyForge mirrors.

> If this won't work, does anyone know how I can download and install
> RoR on my system?
>

For Ruby on Rails you need first Ruby, and either you donwload
InstantRails (old version of Ruby) from RubyForge (expect same
problem) or try BitNami stack.

The later being similarly based on old version of Ruby, expect gem
installation issues as described in the FAQ:

http://wiki.github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/faq
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[rbarton]

On Mar 16, 3:36 am, Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is nothing we can do as we don't control RubyForge mirrors.

FYI, I am in contact with Tom Copeland of RubyForge, and we are trying
to diagnose these issues that some of us are experiencing with the
RubyForge download of RubyInstaller files. Will post any updates back
here.

Ryan

[rbarton]

As a follow-up, Tom has added an optional flag to all RubyForge file
download URLs that, when manually applied, will fetch the files from
their local USA server as opposed to the standard UK mirror. This
resolves the problem that I was seeing with RubyForge downloads.

If others run into this again, append '/noredirect' to the end of your
RubyForge file download URL as a workaround.

Tom mentioned that he may post a FAQ entry on RubyForge about this,
and we may also try to work with Bytemark in the UK to debug and
resolve the underlying network issue.

Ryan