Unable to install gem

Question

I am getting this error, when trying to install any gem ERROR: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ does not appear to be a repository But when I do gem sources, it shows * CURRENT SOURCES * http://gems.rubyforge.org/

Answer 1

You may need to update rubygems.

Answer 2

Perhaps you have an http proxy in your network? What do you see when you go to the page http://gems.rubyforge.org/ directly (using your browser)? Or even better: what happens if you wget the url 'http://gems.rubyforge.org/yaml'?

Answer 3

I'm not the original poster, but I get the same error message: ERROR: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ does not appear to be a repository

When I go to that exact URL using MSIE7, I get a page titled "Gemcutter | awesome gem hosting". So how is the "gem install" command supposed to get past that?

Web search shows MANY people having this same problem over a long span of time, but I have yet to see anyone say "It's because of THIS, so do THIS to fix it."

Help?