# Ruby Gem mirrors besides gemcutter

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gem-mirrors-besides-gemcutter/179897>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 7, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gem-mirrors-besides-gemcutter/179897 "2009-12-07T17:40:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![rilindo\_foster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@rilindo\_foster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rilindo_foster)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gem-mirrors-besides-gemcutter/179897/1 "2009-12-07T17:40:58Z")

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Are there other rubygem mirrors out there besides gemcutter? Amazon S3  
is blocked at my place of employment.

I can work around by downloading the gems manually from Rubyforge, but  
that is not likely to last very long as new gems appear at Gemcutter.  
There is one hosted on gem.tron.name, but that was taken down. If  
there anywhere else I can use as a repo, that would help me out a lot.  
Thanks!

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**Author:** ![rilindo\_foster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@rilindo\_foster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rilindo_foster)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gem-mirrors-besides-gemcutter/179897/2 "2009-12-07T20:31:54Z")

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On Dec 7, 1:40 pm, rilindo foster [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Are there other rubygem mirrors out there besides gemcutter? Amazon S3  
> is blocked at my place of employment.
> 
> I can work around by downloading the gems manually from Rubyforge, but  
> that is not likely to last very long as new gems appear at Gemcutter.  
> There is one hosted on gem.tron.name, but that was taken down. If  
> there anywhere else I can use as a repo, that would help me out a lot.  
> Thanks!

This topic was raised in Gemcutter own group:

[http://groups.google.com/group/gemcutter/browse\_thread/thread/df84cea660060895](http://groups.google.com/group/gemcutter/browse_thread/thread/df84cea660060895)

Please ask there to change from S3 standard bucket to a gemcutter  
CNAME or CDN to avoid the issue you’re experiencing.

That is, unless your environment is block Amazon IPs.

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**Author:** ![rilindo\_foster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@rilindo\_foster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rilindo_foster)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 3:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gem-mirrors-besides-gemcutter/179897/3 "2009-12-10T03:40:39Z")

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I am going to try to work around and setup my own mirror and then maybe  
provide it to other people as a service (with some donations to defrag  
the costs).

Currently trying to download the gems. Very slow. ☹