On Nov 3, 2007, at 14:27 , Brian Sammon wrote: > Does anyone out there use rubygems over dialup? > Am I correct in my understanding that it wants to download a 12MB > index file > before installing anything?
You can use the -B flag to force it to download ~ 9000 files instead, but you have to wait for it to complete :/ > I tried to install a package, and killed rubygems after 15 minutes > because I > was tired of waiting for it. > Does anyone have any practical suggestions for using rubygems 0.9.4 > with a > dialup connection? Manual local installations work :/ Otherwise, no. > Also, what about a progressbar feature? Is anyone working on that? Unfortunately, open-uri does not support progressbars with HTTP, only FTP. I'd like to have a progressbar, but it is not worth the effort to implement. -- Poor workers blame their tools. Good workers build better tools. The best workers get their tools to do the work for them. -- Syndicate Wars _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
