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Installing Rubygem on Cygwin

1. Download the rubygem tgz from RubyForge,
2. Type the following commands:

$ cd /tmp
$ tar xvzf rubygems-1.3.5.tgz
$ cd rubygems-1.3.5
$ ruby setup.rb install
$ gem update --system

If you’re behind a proxy, you can run gem by setting the following environment variables:

export HTTP_PROXY=http://x.x.x.x:80
export HTTP_PROXY_USER=bozo
export HTTP_PROXY_PASS=pipo