What to do when rubygems.org is not working?

Question

I need to set up a rails project, and rubygems.org doesn't seem to work. This is really terrible. I can’t believe that the entire Ruby community has only one not very reliable source of precious stones. What to do in this case?

Answer 1

The best short-term thing you can do is set the Gemfile source to:

source 'http://production.cf.rubygems.org'

which is our CloudFront distribution url. I will return to rubygems.org, although as soon as we return.

In general, I agree with you. This sucks. We are working to make it better.