From: Jon Garvin <jgarvin.lists@...>
Date: 2008-09-05T06:18:36+09:00
Subject: Re: 'gem list --remote' is blank??

Jon Garvin wrote:
> When running 'gem list --remote' on our linux and mac machines, we get a
> huge list of available gems, but when doing the same on a windows laptop
> in the office, we just get...
>
> *** REMOTE GEMS ***
>
> Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/
>
>
> and then after a long while, it returns to the command line without
> listing any gems.
>
> Does anybody have a clue what's going on?  The laptop is on the network,
> and we can browse to http://gems.rugyforge.org/ just fine.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>   
Ok, it seems to be the issue was the version of ruby. That machine
(rarely used) was still on 1.8.5. Updated it to 1.8.6 and gems seems to
be installing fine now.

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