# Gem server problem?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-server-problem/52206>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 11, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-server-problem/52206 "2006-01-11T22:46:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![itsme213](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@itsme213](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/itsme213)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-server-problem/52206/1 "2006-01-11T22:46:11Z")

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Getting different failures on gem list. Anyone else see this?

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C:\Documents and Settings\>gem list -r activerecord

\*\*\* REMOTE GEMS \*\*\*  
Updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Errno::ECONNREFUSED)  
No connection could be made because the target machine actively  
refused  
it. - connect(2)

C:\Documents and Settings\>gem list -r activerecord

\*\*\* REMOTE GEMS \*\*\*  
Updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Errno::EINVAL)  
Invalid argument

C:\Documents and Settings\>gem list -r activerecord

\*\*\* REMOTE GEMS \*\*\*  
Updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Errno::ECONNREFUSED)  
No connection could be made because the target machine actively  
refused  
it. - connect(2)

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**Author:** ![itsme213](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@itsme213](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/itsme213)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-server-problem/52206/2 "2006-01-11T22:55:14Z")

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itsme213 wrote:

> No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused
> 
> \*\*\* REMOTE GEMS \*\*\*  
> Updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
> ERROR: While executing gem … (Errno::ECONNREFUSED)  
> No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused  
> it. - connect(2)

Yep, rubyforge seems to be down. Feel free to scream like a little girl  
and run around in panic.

David V.

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**Author:** ![itsme213](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@itsme213](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/itsme213)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 6:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-server-problem/52206/3 "2006-01-12T06:26:25Z")

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On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 06:43 +0900, itsme213 wrote:

> Getting different failures on gem list. Anyone else see this?

Sorry about that; I was doing some Apache log maintenance and the web  
server was up and down there for a bit. Should be back to normal now…

Yours,

Tom