From: Rilindo Foster <rilindo@...>
Date: 2009-12-10T11:40:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Gem mirrors besides gemcutter

I am going to try to work around and setup my own mirror and then maybe provide it to other people as a service (with some donations to defrag the costs). 

Currently trying to download the gems. Very slow. :(
On Dec 7, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Luis Lavena wrote:

> 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.
> 
> --
> Luis Lavena
> 
>