I use Windows XP Pro. I'm new to ruby.
At 12:35 GMT, I issued the following command plus response:
C:>gem install rails
ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'rails' (>= 0), here is why: Unable to download data from https://rubygems.org/ - 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) (https://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz)
Maybe I should just try later?
The problem was with my VPN.I work from home.
I disconnected the VPN, and now everything works OK.