From: Sean Sawyer <sean@...>
Date: 2008-04-17T03:39:51+09:00
Subject: Re: TypeError when fetching gems with --source

Sean Sawyer wrote:
> When I attempt to fetch gems while specifying a source, like so:
> 
>   gem fetch activerecord-sqlserver-adapter
> --source=http://gems.rubyonrails.org
> 
> ...I receive the following error:
> 
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (TypeError)
>     can't convert URI::HTTP into String
> 
> I have tried fetching without specifying the source, which works just
> fine. Suggestions?

Tried this on my Linux machine where of course it works. It's 
unfortunate that this doesn't seem to work on Windows, however, since it 
makes it a bit difficult to collect gems for installation on secure 
machines if you can't fetch from the Rails gem repo.
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