From: deepak <kannan.deepak@...>
Date: 2008-09-02T20:39:37+09:00
Subject: Re: gem command hangs with no output

on the rubygems FAQ page a link is there on

http://rubygems.org/read/chapter/19#page96, but the answer has been
lost.

Personally in my case flushing the cache by doing a "gem sources --
clear-all" worked.