shiwei zhang wrote:
>        Actually I think the command line is the better way. The command
>  lines like "C:\Documents and Settings>gem install rails --remote" also work
>  for me behind a proxy.

The proxy issue is completely and totally unrelated to how you use the
rubygems API. If you set your http_proxy environment variable to
http://yourproxyname:3128/, rubygems will pick it up.

David Vallner