On 24 Nov 2008, at 17:54, expilo wrote:
> > So what RAM size would you recommend? If 512MB is too little another > tool is really needed, at least for those on low memory VPSs. > I don't honestly know, but what I was trying to say is that that problem has gone away since rubygems 1.2. If you've still got that problem then it's something else > Piotr > > On 24 Lis, 18:41, Frederick Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 24 Nov 2008, at 17:33, expilo wrote: >> >> >> >>> I got 512 MB. Maybe that's too little? I don't think it's the >>> internet >>> problem. I can downloadhttp://gems.rubyforge.org/yaml(27 M) with >>> wget in 3 min 46 s. >> >> You might well be under pressure with that much ram. I've never had >> that problem since rubygems 1.2 >> >> Fred >> >>> Piotr >> >>> On 24 Lis, 16:15, Frederick Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>>> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
