From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2008-08-02T05:14:46+09:00
Subject: Re: where is rubyforge gem?


On Aug 1, 2008, at 12:03 , Adam Shelly wrote:

> At the moment, I'm behind a firewall which doesn't allow `gem install`
> to reach the repository.  But I can go to rubyforge and download gems
> manually and do a `gem install -l`.
> I was trying to update hoe, and I got this error
>
> C:\ruby\localgems>gem install -l hoe-1.7.0.gem
> ERROR:  Error installing hoe-1.7.0.gem:
>        hoe requires rubyforge (>= 1.0.0, runtime)

Ara already answered you, but you're gonna have this problem again...

   http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/

lets you grab any released gem directly.