Setting up Rails on a Windows VM

I've been using this guide The best environment for Rails on Windows, but I balked at using gVim, instead going for Notepad++.

When you do the initial gem installs, you'll need to route it through our web proxy, so bung

-p http://ourwebproxy:8080

at the end, subbing in the ourwebproxy bit for our real proxy, which you can find out by looking in Internet Options in IE.