# Gem instal error

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-instal-error/68109>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 9, 2006, 9:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-instal-error/68109 "2006-09-09T09:15:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Benjohn\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Benjohn\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Benjohn_B)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 9:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-instal-error/68109/1 "2006-09-09T09:15:58Z")

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I’m trying to instal a couple of gems this morning. Here’s a log…

> Tarragon:/Users/benjohn root# gem instal wirble  
> ERROR: While executing gem … (SocketError)  
> getaddrinfo: No address associated with nodename

I’m guessing that the gem server is down, but I don’t know how I’d go  
about checking this. Any ideas?

Cheers,  
Benjohn

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**Author:** ![Benjohn\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Benjohn\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Benjohn_B)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 10:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-instal-error/68109/2 "2006-09-09T10:50:02Z")

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On 9 Sep 2006, at 09:30, Miron Tewfik wrote:

> > Cheers,  
> > Benjohn
> 
> I had the same error with ruby 1.8.5. ruby 1.8.4 works fine.

Hmmm…

> benjohn # ruby -v  
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.0]  
> benjohn # gem -v  
> 0.9.0

Oooh - working now 🙂 I guess the gem server was down (or my link  
was)? In which case a nicer error would be helpful.

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**Author:** ![Benjohn\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Benjohn\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Benjohn_B)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 10:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-instal-error/68109/3 "2006-09-09T10:30:09Z")

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Benjohn B. wrote:

> I’m trying to instal a couple of gems this morning. Here’s a log…
> 
> > Tarragon:/Users/benjohn root# gem instal wirble  
> > ERROR: While executing gem … (SocketError)  
> > getaddrinfo: No address associated with nodename
> 
> I’m guessing that the gem server is down, but I don’t know how I’d go  
> about checking this. Any ideas?
> 
> Cheers,  
> Benjohn

I had the same error with ruby 1.8.5. ruby 1.8.4 works fine.