For a customer project, I had to use some Ruby tools. To include some external libraries I opened up gem, the package manager of Ruby. So I opened a command prompt and triggered the installation of the package I needed: gem install ‘svn2git’ But no matter what I tried, it always failed with the following error message: ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError) too many connection resets ( http://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz ) I figured out that it was caused by the proxy script that was used on the customer’s pc I was using. As the environment was well secured, I couldn’t do anything to bypass the proxy. Luckily there is a workaround(isn’t there always one? ) Go to the Ruby gems download site. Search for the gem that you are interested in. On the gem page , you’ll find a download button. Click it to download the gem directly and save it to the directory of your choice. To i...