From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2006-03-30T00:22:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails 1.1 Released -SOLVED

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 08:22 +0900, Benjohn Barnes wrote:
> On 28 Mar 2006, at 22:40, David Ishmael wrote:
> 
> > Whew, I was running out of ideas.  ;)  Glad it's working now.
> 
> Still seems to be grinding though. I wonder if gems could also be  
> distributed through bit-torrent, or something?

Yup, all gems and large files are served by mirrors:

http://rubyforge.org/credits/

The slowdown now is due to the size of the Gem index (and RubyForge's
limited bandwidth).  The Gem guys have a fix in the pipeline for the
former and I think the latter is being worked on as well...

Yours,

Tom