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: Evan Phoenix (evan) >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Bala Paranj (bparanj) Date: 2011-05-05 17:18 Message: With rubygems 1.8, When I run : gem install heroku : ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'heroku' (>= 0) in any repository ERROR: Possible alternatives: engine_yard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Bala Paranj (bparanj) Date: 2011-05-05 17:14 Message: Sorry the original report was for 1.3.7. Testing for 1.8 now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Bala Paranj (bparanj) Date: 2011-05-05 17:11 Message: One more scenario: When you are connected to a public network and you have not agreed to the terms and conditions, it throws "Zlib error". Nice to have message : "Are you at Starbucks? You have not agreed to the terms and conditions." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Evan Phoenix (evan) Date: 2011-05-05 16:58 Message: Please check again with Rubygems 1.8. I'm currently getting an error report like: ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'blah' (>= 0) in any repository ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError) SocketError: getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known (http://gems.rubyforge9999.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
