Bugs item #29168, was opened at 2011-05-05 16:46 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=575&aid=29168&group_id=126
Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Bala Paranj (bparanj) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: gem install <gem_name> gives vague error when not connected to network Initial Comment: Example: $ gem install heroku ERROR: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ does not appear to be a repository ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'heroku' (>= 0) in any repository Here is the code that can be used in the patch to handle different scenarios to give user useful feedback to recover from error: rescue SocketError => serror puts "You are not connected to the network." rescue Errno::ECONNREFUSED => cerror puts "Server is down" rescue => e puts "Exception #{e.message} occurred" end ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=575&aid=29168&group_id=126 _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
