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 download http://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

