From: Benjohn Barnes <benjohn@...>
Date: 2006-09-09T17:43:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Gem instal error


On 9 Sep 2006, at 09:30, Miron Tewfik wrote:

> Benjohn Barnes wrote:
>> I'm trying to instal a couple of gems this morning. Here's a log...
>>
>>> Tarragon:/Users/benjohn root# gem instal wirble
>>> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (SocketError)
>>>     getaddrinfo: No address associated with nodename
>>
>> I'm guessing that the gem server is down, but I don't know how I'd go
>> about checking this. Any ideas?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> 	Benjohn
>
> I had the same error with ruby 1.8.5. ruby 1.8.4 works fine.

Hmmm....

> benjohn # ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.0]
> benjohn # gem -v
> 0.9.0

Oooh - working now :) I guess the gem server was down (or my link  
was)? In which case a nicer error would be helpful.