Gems problem

Hi all,

I cannot get gem install x to work at all.

[Spikefish:/Users/web] root# gem install rubyzip
Attempting local installation of 'rubyzip'
Local gem file not found: rubyzip*.gem
Attempting remote installation of 'rubyzip'
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:42:in `rbuf_fill': execution expired (Timeout::Error)
         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:196:in `timeout'
         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:55:in `timeout'
         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:196:in `rbuf_fill'
         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:160:in `readuntil'
         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:171:in `readline'
         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1554:in `read_status_line'
         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1538:in `read_new'
         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:833:in `request'
          ... 25 levels...
         from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:92:in `process_args'
         from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:65:in `run'
         from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:9:in `run'
         from /usr/bin/gem:17
[Spikefish:/Users/web] root#

I've never had a problem previously, the only thing that may be affecting it is that I'm currently checking out a large amount of source files from a remote svn repo, but other network apps are fine (web/mail/im/svn etc).

Any ideas? Is the gem server down?

Thanks
Kev

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That seems like a network problem, possibly from RubyForge. Can you
download the gem to your machine and install it locally?