Rubygems mirror

If you’re a RubyGems user, you can’t have missed how slow it is, even with the new mirroring system.

To speed it up a bit for me, I setup a mirror. You’re free to use it for your own needs if you find it speedier, here’s the URLs :

http://gems.tron.name/gems.rubyforge.org/

and

http://gems.tron.name/gems.rubyonrails.com/

To use it only for a particular gem use :

gem install --source http://gems.tron.name/gems.rubyforge.org/ your_gem_name

To set it as the default for your gems add the next line to your ~/.gemrc :

gem: --source http://gems.tron.name/gems.rubyforge.org/ 

6 comments »

1. 

   By Merlyn Albery-Speyer over 1 year later:

   
   

   Thanks for this post and the mirror. I was getting really frustrated with the main site not delivering me the whole yaml file.

2. 

   By MegaKillerXXX almost 2 years later:

   
   

   Thank you my hero

3. 

   By Nick about 2 years later:

   
   

   Yeah, thanks. Would be nice to know exactly how you created the mirror, though. Then I could stop using yours!

4. 

   By frustrated ruby newbie about 3 years later:

   
   

   thanks a lot, this rubyforge thing is offline now for the whole morning :(

5. 

   By Fonso about 3 years later:

   
   

   Thanks for the mirror :)

6. 

   By Björn about 3 years later:

   
   

   And thank you from me as well! rubyforge is down, down down today, so your mirror really is a saviour!!