# Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchErro when installing rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-fetcherro-when-installing-rails/178338>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 3, 2009, 4:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-fetcherro-when-installing-rails/178338 "2009-11-03T04:40:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![pierr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@pierr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pierr)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 4:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-fetcherro-when-installing-rails/178338/1 "2009-11-03T04:40:55Z")

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I am trying to install rails on Ubuntu 8.10, and met following errors.  
Please  
help me get through.Thanks.

root@pierr-desktop:~# gem install rails  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)  
bad response 500  
([http://gems.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/gems/actionpack-2.3.4.gem](http://gems.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/gems/actionpack-2.3.4.gem))

#other information  
root@pierr-desktop:~# ruby -v  
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux]  
root@pierr-desktop:~# gem -v  
1.2.0  
root@pierr-desktop:~# gem list

\*\*\* LOCAL GEMS \*\*\*

activerecord (2.3.4)  
activesupport (2.3.4, 1.4.4)  
daemons (1.0.10)  
gem\_plugin (0.2.3)  
rack (1.0.1)  
rake (0.8.7, 0.8.3)  
wirble (0.1.3)

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**Author:** ![pierr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@pierr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pierr)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-fetcherro-when-installing-rails/178338/2 "2009-11-03T18:02:42Z")

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You may be hitting a busy site and timing out. You could try re-  
ordering the sources listed in your .gemrc file or just add gemcutter  
([http://gemcutter.org/](http://gemcutter.org/)) and give that a try.

I’m not sure what to suggest for best order. For reference, here’s  
what my .gemrc looks like right now:

## $ cat .gemrc

:backtrace: false  
:benchmark: false  
:bulk\_threshold: 1000  
:sources:

- [http://gemcutter.org](http://gemcutter.org)
- [http://gems.github.com](http://gems.github.com)
- [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
:update\_sources: true  
:verbose: true  
$