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I have followed all stapes from this page https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-ruby-on-rails-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts-precise-pangolin-with-rvm

It all goes well until command to install rails

gem install rails

I get this error:

ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::UnknownHostError)
    no such name (http://api.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=activerecord-deprecated_finders)

ON each new try error message shows different gem dependencies?gems=.......

Any advices on this issue?

EDIT:

Here is the full stack trace after executing coomand gem install rails -V

HEAD https://api.rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
302 Moved Temporarily
HEAD https://s3.amazonaws.com/production.s3.rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
200 OK
GET https://api.rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
302 Moved Temporarily
GET https://s3.amazonaws.com/production.s3.rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
200 OK
HEAD http://api.rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
302 Moved Temporarily
HEAD http://production.s3.rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
200 OK
GET http://api.rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
302 Moved Temporarily
GET http://production.s3.rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
200 OK
HEAD https://api.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies
302 Moved Temporarily
HEAD https://bundler.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies
200 OK
HEAD http://api.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies
302 Moved Temporarily
HEAD http://bundler.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies
200 OK
GET https://api.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=rails
302 Moved Temporarily
GET https://bundler.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=rails
200 OK
GET http://api.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=rails
302 Moved Temporarily
GET http://bundler.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=rails
200 OK
GET https://api.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=railties
302 Moved Temporarily
GET https://bundler.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=railties
200 OK
GET http://api.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=railties
302 Moved Temporarily
GET http://bundler.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=railties
200 OK
GET https://api.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=actionmailer
302 Moved Temporarily
GET https://bundler.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=actionmailer
200 OK
GET http://api.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=actionmailer
302 Moved Temporarily
GET http://bundler.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=actionmailer
200 OK
GET https://api.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=activerecord
302 Moved Temporarily
GET https://bundler.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=activerecord
200 OK
GET http://api.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=activerecord
302 Moved Temporarily
GET http://bundler.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=activerecord
200 OK
GET https://api.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=actionpack
302 Moved Temporarily
GET https://bundler.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=actionpack
200 OK
GET http://api.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=actionpack
302 Moved Temporarily
GET http://bundler.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=actionpack
200 OK
GET https://api.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=activesupport
302 Moved Temporarily
GET https://bundler.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=activesupport
200 OK
GET http://api.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=activesupport
302 Moved Temporarily
GET http://bundler.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=activesupport
200 OK
GET https://api.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=activemodel
302 Moved Temporarily
GET https://bundler.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=activemodel
200 OK
GET http://api.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=activemodel
302 Moved Temporarily
GET http://bundler.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=activemodel
200 OK
GET https://api.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=sprockets-rails
302 Moved Temporarily
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::UnknownHostError)
    no such name (https://api.rubygems.org/api/v1/dependencies?gems=sprockets-rails)
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I installed rails last week using the instructions here:

http://railsapps.github.io/installrubyonrails-ubuntu.html

Notable differences between the how-to's are:

the addition of the --ruby to the command:

\curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby

The command to updating RVM is instead:

rvm get stable --autolibs=enable

The version of ruby to use is explicitly set:

rvm --default use ruby-2.1.0

Installation of js.Node

sudo apt-get install nodejs

The installation of rails is also preceded by explicitly setting the version:

rvm use [email protected] --create

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