Installing rails is failing: Unable to download data

Question

I'm trying to install rails on a new machine and am running to the following command issue:

gem install rails
ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'rails' (>= 0), here is why:
          Unable to download data from http://gems.rubyforge.org/ - Errno::ETIMEDOUT: Operation timed out - connect(2) (http://gems.rubyforge.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz)

I think it might have to do with downloading from gems.rubyforge.org? — locoboy, Aug 01 '13 at 20:49

ipd · Answer 1 · 2013-08-02T21:56:52.470

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rubyforge.org was deprecated in favor of rubygems.org -- quite a while ago, this is nothing new. But you are stuck with an old source, i was too, just updated.

You probably want to do the following, first remove rubyforge.org as a source:

gem source -r http://gems.rubyforge.org

Next add rubygems.org as a source

gem source -a http://rubygems.org

Now do a gem update:

gem update --system

Check to see which version of gem you are running:

gem -v

Should be on 2.0.6 (or greater).

Good to go!

edited Aug 02 '13 at 21:56

answered Aug 02 '13 at 16:57

ipd

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Thank you! This problem has plagued me for a year and after having removed both rubyforge and rails sources, the gem script now functions once again. Can't express how glad I am for having this plague cured :) – Jojje Aug 03 '13 at 02:30

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 01 '13 at 20:50

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RubyForge was down today. :)

See here.

answered Aug 01 '13 at 20:50

Aaron Gray

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do you know where else i can get the rails gem? – locoboy Aug 01 '13 at 20:53
If you download it from there, then you can install it locally like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/220176/how-can-i-install-local-gem – Aaron Gray Aug 01 '13 at 20:58
I'm actually looking for 3.2.13 – locoboy Aug 01 '13 at 21:12

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 02 '13 at 10:01

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You could not reach the gems server. Could be many things but you can find the status of RubyForge here: http://status.rubygems.org/

answered Aug 02 '13 at 10:01

Ric Pruss

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This is actually the status page for `rubygems` NOT `rubyforge`. – ipd Aug 02 '13 at 16:51

Installing rails is failing: Unable to download data

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