gem update

[Tamilselvi Srinivasan]

Hi,
am getting this error while updating or installing any gems

D:\blog>gem update --system
Updating installed gems...
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
Bad file descriptor - connect(2)(Errno::EBADF)

this is my gem env

D:\blog>gem env
RubyGems Environment:
- VERSION: 0.9.4 (0.9.4)
- INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
- GEM PATH:
- C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
- REMOTE SOURCES:
- http://gems.rubyforge.org

can any one help to solve this probs!!!!!!

 

[Dan Webb [dbw]]

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[Tamilselvi Srinivasan]

Are you behind a proxy?

http://rubygems.org/read/chapter/13#page51



Cheers,
Dan

hi dan ,
I checked the browser proxy setting. It is set to auto
detect, and no other information is entered on the dialog window.