From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2009-06-03T06:59:12+09:00
Subject: Re: My rubygems is completely broken (EOFErrors)

On Jun 1, 2009, at 16:45, Doug McBride wrote:

> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (URI::InvalidURIError)
>    bad URI(is not URI?):
> 	/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/
> 1.8/uri/common.rb:437:in `split'
> 	/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/
> 1.8/uri/common.rb:486:in `parse'
> 	/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/remote_fetcher.rb:258:in
> `open_uri_or_path'

This checks the URI

> 	/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/remote_fetcher.rb:288:in
> `open_uri_or_path'

This is the redirect response handler

Since it got nil, and you got a bunch of EOFErrors above, I'd guess  
that there's network issues between you and rubyforge.