# Anyone having issues with rubyforge at the moment?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-having-issues-with-rubyforge-at-the-moment/147763>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 5, 2008, 7:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-having-issues-with-rubyforge-at-the-moment/147763 "2008-09-05T07:05:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 7:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-having-issues-with-rubyforge-at-the-moment/147763/1 "2008-09-05T07:05:56Z")

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Hi,

Is anyone having trouble with rubyforge at the moment?

Macintosh:myequity greg$ sudo gem update rails  
Password:  
Updating installed gems  
WARNING: RubyGems 1.2+ index not found for:

RubyGems will revert to legacy indexes degrading performance.  
Updating rails  
ERROR: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) does not appear to be a repository  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::GemNotFoundException)  
could not find gem rails locally or in a repository  
Macintosh:myequity greg$  
Macintosh:myequity greg$  
Macintosh:myequity greg$ sudo gem update rails\

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Macintosh:myequity greg$ sudo gem update rails  
Updating installed gems  
WARNING: RubyGems 1.2+ index not found for:

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

RubyGems will revert to legacy indexes degrading performance.  
ERROR: [http://gems.rubyonrails.org/](http://gems.rubyonrails.org/) does not appear to be a repository  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::InstallError)  
rails requires activesupport (= 2.1.1, runtime)  
Macintosh:myequity greg$  
Macintosh:myequity greg$ gem -v  
1.2.0  
Macintosh:myequity greg$ gem env  
RubyGems Environment:

- RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.2.0
- RUBY VERSION: 1.8.6 (2007-09-23 patchlevel 110) [i686-darwin9.3.0]
- INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
- RUBY EXECUTABLE: /opt/local/bin/ruby
- EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /opt/local/bin
- RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
  - ruby
  - x86-darwin-9

- GEM PATHS:
  - /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8

- GEM CONFIGURATION:
  - :update\_sources =\> true
  - :verbose =\> true
  - :benchmark =\> false
  - :backtrace =\> false
  - :bulk\_threshold =\> 1000
  - :sources =\> [“[http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)”,  
“[http://gems.rubyonrails.org/](http://gems.rubyonrails.org/)”]

- REMOTE SOURCES:
  - [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)
  - [http://gems.rubyonrails.org/](http://gems.rubyonrails.org/)  
Macintosh:myequity greg$

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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-having-issues-with-rubyforge-at-the-moment/147763/2 "2008-09-05T22:35:41Z")

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getting this currently:

Macintosh:myequity greg$ gem update ruby-debug-ide  
Updating installed gems  
WARNING: RubyGems 1.2+ index not found for:  
RubyGems will revert to legacy indexes degrading performance.  
Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org/](http://gems.rubyforge.org/)  
ERROR: While executing gem … (NoMethodError)  
undefined method `gems’ for #String:0x1c22148

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Greg H.