Rails - Jan 2006 - Newbie installation problem: gem [command] --remote

Hi, i am a newbie to RoR. I downloaded Ruby 1.8.2-15 Windows installer 
yesterday and trying to install following Curt Hibbs'' Rolling with Ruby
on Rails(http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html). My 
OS is Win XP SP2 and the 1st step installation was fine.

D:\rg\xampp\ruby\bin>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]

Next I was going to install rails remotely, but seems all the gem 
command with --remote didn''t work. Here is the error message:

D:\rg\xampp\ruby\bin>gem install rails --remote --debug

D:\rg\xampp\ruby\bin>"D:\rg\xampp\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "D:\rg\xa
mpp\ruby\bin\gem" install rails --remote --debug
Exception `Errno::ENOENT'' at 
D:/rg/xampp/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubyg
ems/config_file.rb:12 - No such file or directory - C:\Documents and 
Settings\Da
niel/.gemrc
Attempting remote installation of ''rails''
Exception `Errno::ENOENT'' at 
D:/rg/xampp/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:82
1 - No such file or directory - 
D:/rg/xampp/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/source_
cache
Exception `EOFError'' at 
D:/rg/xampp/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/r
emote_installer.rb:222 - End of file reached
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Exception `Errno::EINVAL'' at 
D:/rg/xampp/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb
:197 - Invalid argument
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Errno::EINVAL)
    Invalid argument
removing D:/Temp/open-uri1844.0...done

D:\rg\xampp\ruby\bin>gem list --remote --debug

D:\rg\xampp\ruby\bin>"D:\rg\xampp\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "D:\rg\xa
mpp\ruby\bin\gem" list --remote --debug
Exception `Errno::ENOENT'' at 
D:/rg/xampp/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubyg
ems/config_file.rb:12 - No such file or directory - C:\Documents and 
Settings\Da
niel/.gemrc

*** REMOTE GEMS ***
Exception `EOFError'' at 
D:/rg/xampp/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/r
emote_installer.rb:222 - End of file reached
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Exception `Errno::EINVAL'' at 
D:/rg/xampp/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb
:197 - Invalid argument
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Errno::EINVAL)
    Invalid argument
removing D:/Temp/open-uri3952.0...done

The ZoneAlarm firewall was turned off already. Anybody know what''s
wrong
with my    configration? Thanks in advance.

Daniel

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