# Gem mirrors list and main server outage

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-mirrors-list-and-main-server-outage/63916>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 20, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-mirrors-list-and-main-server-outage/63916 "2006-06-20T17:43:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ed\_Howland](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/7993a0/32.png) [@Ed\_Howland](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ed_Howland)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-mirrors-list-and-main-server-outage/63916/1 "2006-06-20T17:43:39Z")

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Hi, during today’s rubyforge maintenance outage, I could not  
update/install my gems. I understood these were served by mirrors and  
that you automatically got redirected. Is it because the redirection  
happened on the server that was out?

Is there an independant list of mirrors not served by rubyforge?

Ed

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**Author:** ![Ed\_Howland](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/7993a0/32.png) [@Ed\_Howland](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ed_Howland)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-mirrors-list-and-main-server-outage/63916/2 "2006-06-20T19:19:41Z")

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> Hi, during today’s rubyforge maintenance outage, I could not  
> update/install my gems. I understood these were served by  
> mirrors and that you automatically got redirected. Is it  
> because the redirection happened on the server that was out?

Precisely. I’m rsyncing over the files now; should be back online…  
perhaps in an hour or so.

> Is there an independant list of mirrors not served by rubyforge?

If you want, you can grab gems from here in the meantime:

[http://rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/gems/](http://rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/gems/)

Yours,

Tom

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**Author:** ![Ed\_Howland](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/7993a0/32.png) [@Ed\_Howland](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ed_Howland)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-mirrors-list-and-main-server-outage/63916/3 "2006-08-03T14:24:04Z")

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> If you want, you can grab gems from here in the meantime:
> 
> [http://rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/gems/](http://rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/gems/)
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Tom

Thanks, Tom.

I was able to get the gems and install manually.

Ed

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**Author:** ![Ed\_Howland](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/7993a0/32.png) [@Ed\_Howland](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ed_Howland)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-mirrors-list-and-main-server-outage/63916/4 "2006-08-03T14:24:04Z")

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> Thanks, Tom.
> 
> I was able to get the gems and install manually.

Super!

Tom