From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2008-06-02T04:07:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Gems not working


On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 23:53 +0900, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> Since I've had to reinstall all my gems after the upgrade to 1.8.7,
> here's an idea of what's happening with the gem servers right now:
> 
> $ for a in actionmailer RedCloth rspec rubygems-update rails fxruby
> bindata actionpack gem_plugin rush ruby-debug-ide activeresource
> opod ; do echo $a ; until gem install $a ; do echo Retrying $a... ;
> done ; done

I think an easier way to do this might be:

sudo gem install actionmailer RedCloth [... etc ...]

> actionmailer
> Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/
> Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/

I've noticed this double bulk update sometimes as well.  You might want
to post a note to the rubygems-developers list about it.

Yours,

tom