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WARNING: RubyGems 1.2+ index not found for: RubyGems will revert to legacy indexes degrading performance.

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I live in China. I just tried to gem install and gem update from my pc and I got the same error. So i postulate the error is something to do with the great firewall

Sam 2009-12-07 12:40:07

Or any firewall for that matter. Actually it wasn't because I was in China it was something to do with the wireless router so move to a hard connection if you can! just my advice

Sam 2010-08-05 06:45:23

Answer 2

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Are you using Windows 7? I used windows xp, it's ok, but under windows 7 it failed!! The same error as yours.

Katmaier 2009-12-12 13:57:45

I'm using a osx. The problem was something to do with my connection. I only get this error when I am at my house but if I go to another location such as a coffee shop I don't get this error and can gem install gem source etc... Plus, I am currently living in China but that will change because it is not a place for a programmer to live if they use western sources of information.

Sam 2009-12-13 05:57:49

Answer 3

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I am also seeing this problem but only from my home WiFi connection. If I plugin to the router it goes away. I'm sure it is something to do with my configuration but finding it is another story.

Midwire 2010-01-28 05:24:18

Oh, i wish i would have tried plugging directly into the router. I discovered the problem when I went to a local coffee shop to use their internet and just ended up going for a coffee each time I need to get a new gem.

Sam 2010-02-04 08:45:57

Answer 4

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You'll have to had github.com to your gem sources :

gem sources -a http://gems.github.com

Should do the trick

brunetton 2010-02-19 11:01:08

Answer 5

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remove the culprit URL.

in my case, I am on Centos 5.4 and the full error message I am getting is:

root# gem install rack
WARNING:  RubyGems 1.2+ index not found for:
    http://rubyworks.rubyforge.org/redhat/5/GEMS/x86_64/

RubyGems will revert to legacy indexes degrading performance.
ERROR:  could not find gem rack locally or in a repository
root#

Solution: edit your .gemrc and remove the address that makes it fails.

try again and remove the next broken url if any until it_just_works(tm);

more it, the one above was the only one.

see the content of my .gemrc config file.

root# cat .gemrc 
--- 
:verbose: true
:bulk_threshold: 1000
:benchmark: false
:update_sources: true
:backtrace: false
:disabledsources: 
- http://rubyworks.rubyforge.org/redhat/5/GEMS/x86_64/
:sources: 
- http://gems.rubyforge.org
- http://gems.github.com
- http://gems.rubyforge.org
- http://gems.github.com/
- http://gems.rubyonrails.org/
root# pwd
/root
root#

Et Voila!

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thanks

2010-03-13 03:18:53

I had the same problem and you were right, it was just a bad source: - http://gems.rubyonrails.org

Daniel Beardsley 2010-03-24 21:26:14

Hope you got your money. :)

Christian 2010-03-29 04:50:45

the problem was due to firewall not bad url

Sam 2010-07-14 16:05:48

somekool thanks for the try, I changed the sources a few times but it was really just because of a firewall issue

Sam 2010-07-14 16:06:32

Answer 6

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Where can I find .gemrc in windows?

jack 2010-07-12 10:09:12

Answer 7

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I just had a similar situation....

--- 
:verbose: true
:update_sources: true
:sources: 
- http://gems.rubyforge.org/
- http://gems.github.com
:bulk_threshold: 1000
:backtrace: false
:benchmark: false

You can also use either of the following to see what URLs you have.

gem env
gem sources

When I tried "http://gems.github.com" it no longer works!

So I updated my gemrc this way:

sudo gem sources -r http://gems.github.com

Voila!

Jon Kern 2010-08-04 22:20:28

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