You may be hitting a busy site and timing out. You could try re-
ordering the sources listed in your .gemrc file or just add gemcutter
(http://gemcutter.org/) and give that a try.
I''m not sure what to suggest for best order. For reference,
here''s
what my .gemrc looks like right now:
$ cat .gemrc
---
:backtrace: false
:benchmark: false
:bulk_threshold: 1000
:sources:
- http://gemcutter.org
- http://gems.github.com
- http://gems.rubyforge.org
:update_sources: true
:verbose: true
$
On Nov 2, 10:32 pm, pierr
<pierr.c...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> I am trying to install rails on Ubuntu 8.10, and met following errors.
Please
> help me get through.Thanks.
>
> root@pierr-desktop:~# gem install rails
> ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
> bad response 500
> (http://gems.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/gems/actionpack-2.3.4.gem)
>
> #other information
> root@pierr-desktop:~# ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux]
> root@pierr-desktop:~# gem -v
> 1.2.0
> root@pierr-desktop:~# gem list
>
> *** LOCAL GEMS ***
>
> activerecord (2.3.4)
> activesupport (2.3.4, 1.4.4)
> daemons (1.0.10)
> gem_plugin (0.2.3)
> rack (1.0.1)
> rake (0.8.7, 0.8.3)
> wirble (0.1.3)
>
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