12.17.07

Manually downloading and installing gems.

Posted in Ruby, merb at 11:57 pm by Robert Horvick

I’m getting ready to dive deeper into merb and wanted to install merb_activerecord. Unfortunately when I tried this I hit the following error:

$ gem install merb_activerecord
Updating metadata for 32 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org
................................
complete
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
OpenURI::HTTPError: 404 Not Found reading http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/activesupport-2.0.2-.gem

So I tried “gem update activesupport” and hit the same error.

I went out to the ActiveSupport RubyForge page found that 2.0.2 was released today. So I went to http://gems.rubyforge.org (which redirected to http://gems.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/gems) and the latest version available in 2.0.1. So I assume this is just an issue of needing to wait for data to shuffle around.

But I’m impatient.

So I downloaded the gem file from http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/29344/activesupport-2.0.2.gem and installed as:

$ gem install activesupport-2.0.2.gem
Successfully installed activesupport-2.0.2
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for activesupport-2.0.2...
Installing RDoc documentation for activesupport-2.0.2...

When that was done I was able to successfully install merb_activerecord as follows:

$ gem install merb_activerecord
Successfully installed merb_activerecord-0.4.3
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for merb_activerecord-0.4.3...
Installing RDoc documentation for merb_activerecord-0.4.3...

The lessons here are that just-released gems might not be available via “gem install” even though they are a listed dependency of other gems and that manually downloading and installing gems is trivial.

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