From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-08-03T14:06:42+09:00
Subject: Re: gem list -r -d *** generates Error*** on http://gems.github.com


On Aug 2, 2009, at 08:45 , John wrote:

> Is there a workaround to this problem, which would allow me to
> obtain the name & description for gems starting with "a".

nope. the gem index in tainted. until the github gem repository is  
cleaned of the offenders, it'll keep happening.