From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2011-04-29T07:05:38+09:00
Subject: Re: gem list --pre : 404 error?

On Apr 28, 3:53 pm, Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote:
> rubygems 1.7.2, ruby 1.8.7.
>
> I thought this was the way to see what "pre" versions of a gem are
> available:
>
>   gem list --pre --remote someGem
>
> When I try that though, I get this error message:
>
> *** REMOTE GEMS ***
>
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
>     bad response Not Found 404
> (http://gems.rubyonrails.org/prerelease_specs.4.8.gz)
>
> Anyone know what's up?
>

One of the sources you've configured do not work with latest rubygems:
gems.rubyonrails.org.

I was able to replicate this:

C:\Users\Luis>gem sources --add http://gems.rubyonrails.org
http://gems.rubyonrails.org added to sources

C:\Users\Luis>gem list --pre --remote rails

*** REMOTE GEMS ***

ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
    bad response Not Found 404 (http://gems.rubyonrails.org/
prerelease_specs.4.8.gz)

Please remove the source and try again:

C:\Users\Luis>gem sources --remove http://gems.rubyonrails.org
http://gems.rubyonrails.org removed from sources

Also, verify that in your sources rubygems.org is mentioned:

C:\Users\Luis>gem sources --list
*** CURRENT SOURCES ***

http://rubygems.org

HTH,

--
Luis Lavena