# Gem update broken? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [September 6, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-broken/67729 "2006-09-06T12:35:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomtt)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-broken/67729/1 "2006-09-06T12:35:42Z")
This probably isn’t strictly a RoR problem, but I’m getting the following error when updating gems: tom@tom-laptop:~/code/radrails\_workspace/calendar$ sudo gem update Password: Updating installed gems… Need to update 6 gems from [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) …ERROR: While executing gem … (URI::InvalidURIError) bad URI(is not URI?): [RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/quick/activerecord-jdbc-#)gem::version:0xa53ac84.gemspec.rz This wasn’t happening yesterday! Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomtt)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 3:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-broken/67729/2 "2006-09-06T15:36:02Z")
Crap. I’m getting the same error. ---
**Author:** ![tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomtt)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-broken/67729/3 "2006-09-06T15:52:05Z")
Yup. Have the same problem. This activerecord-jdbc package just came out and I guess something failed. On 9/6/06, Tom T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > [RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/quick/activerecord-jdbc-#)gem::version:0xa53ac84.gemspec.rz > > This wasn’t happening yesterday! > > Any ideas? > > > ## – Jon Gretar B. [http://www.jongretar.net/](http://www.jongretar.net/) ---
**Author:** ![tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomtt)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-broken/67729/4 "2006-09-06T16:12:07Z")
> > Password: > > Updating installed gems… > > Need to update 6 gems from [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) > > …ERROR: While executing gem … (URI::InvalidURIError) > > bad URI(is not URI?): > > [RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/quick/activerecord-jdbc-#) > > gem::version:0xa53ac84.gemspec.rz ## Good timing, just tried a gem update myself and had the same error. Was about to post a similar email. Andrew S. ---
**Author:** ![tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomtt)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-broken/67729/5 "2006-09-06T16:10:07Z")
fred wrote: > > ``` > > bad URI(is not URI?): > > > > ``` > > > > [RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/quick/activerecord-jdbc-#)gem::version:0xa53ac84.gemspec.rz > > > > This wasn’t happening yesterday! > > > > Any ideas? The release of ActiveRecord-JDBC managed to put a faulty gem into the system. Hopefully my removal of that gem will propagate to the source index soon enough. – Ola B. ([http://ola-bini.blogspot.com](http://ola-bini.blogspot.com)) JvYAML, RbYAML, JRuby and Jatha contributor System Developer, Karolinska Institutet ([http://www.ki.se](http://www.ki.se)) OLogix Consulting ([http://www.ologix.com](http://www.ologix.com)) “Yields falsehood when quined” yields falsehood when quined. ---
**Author:** ![tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomtt)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 4:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-broken/67729/6 "2006-09-06T16:28:10Z")
On 9/6/06, Jon Gretar B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Yup. Have the same problem. This activerecord-jdbc package just came > out and I guess something failed. I had the same assumption, but would also assume that one misconfigured package wouldn’t prevent the update command from completing. Most likely a scenario that was overlooked and will probably be fixed soon (and probably not happen again). – Andrew S. ---
**Author:** ![tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomtt)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-broken/67729/7 "2006-09-06T18:00:26Z")
On 9/6/06, Andrew S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I had the same assumption, but would also assume that one misconfigured > package wouldn’t prevent the update command from completing. Most likely a > scenario that was overlooked and will probably be fixed soon (and probably > not happen again). > Well. Everytime gem connects to the net it gets updated pakage > descriptions. So if one of them is faulty then that selfupdate fails. ## – Jon Gretar B. [http://www.jongretar.net/](http://www.jongretar.net/) ---
**Author:** ![tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@tomtt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomtt)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-broken/67729/8 "2006-09-14T18:16:50Z")
Same here ☹ root@laptop:/home/chris# gem install rails --include-dependencies Need to update 40 gems from [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) …ERROR: While executing gem … (URI::InvalidURIError) bad URI(is not URI?): [RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/quick/activerecord-jdbc-#)gem::version:0x91a5cac.gemspec.rz root@laptop:/home/chris#