From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-12-08T04:30:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Gem mirrors besides gemcutter

On Dec 7, 1:40 pm, rilindo foster <rili...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are there other rubygem mirrors out there besides gemcutter? Amazon S3
> is blocked at my place of employment.
>
> I can work around by downloading the gems manually from Rubyforge, but
> that is not likely to last very long as new gems appear at Gemcutter.
> There is one hosted on gem.tron.name, but that was taken down. If
> there anywhere else I can use as a repo, that would help me out a lot.
> Thanks!

This topic was raised in Gemcutter own group:

http://groups.google.com/group/gemcutter/browse_thread/thread/df84cea660060895

Please ask there to change from S3 standard bucket to a gemcutter
CNAME or CDN to avoid the issue you're experiencing.

That is, unless your environment is block Amazon IPs.

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Luis Lavena