You can download the .gem files yourself and install them. Since rubygems 1.2 i've never had any problems, but prior versions were a bit problematic (especially on machines with not so much memory)
Fred On Nov 24, 3:04 pm, Bobnation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only time I've run into anything similar is when my internet has > either went *kaput* or a firewall setting at work stopped me from > downloading any gems automatically. I would maybe check there first. > > On Nov 24, 8:15 am, expilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I have been trying for the last three days on two different debian > > linux platforms x386 and amd64 using different rubygems versions > > 1.1.1, 1.2.0 and 1.3.1 to update gems on my system. No way! It only > > says it's doing a bulk source update, eats all memory and does > > nothing. The longest I was waiting was 10 hours. Surely that's enough > > to update rails installation with dependencies and a couple of other > > gems on a 1Mb cable line? It seems I'll have to learn to live with > > manual gem downloads. So my question is: how do you live without > > rubygems when you have to? Has anyone any shell scripts that use awk > > or sed, tar and wget? I'm sure they would do a better job. I'm close > > to start writing one but maybe someone already got something like > > this. > > > Many thanks for any hints > > > Piotr --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
