# Rubygems: bad urls **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 14, 2010, 9:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-bad-urls/181595 "2010-01-14T09:57:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![willwach](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/c68b51/32.png) [@willwach](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/willwach)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 9:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-bad-urls/181595/1 "2010-01-14T09:57:05Z")
I patched ruby gems successfully so that it outputs ruby packages so that I can feed them into the Nix package manager system ([www.nixos.org](http://www.nixos.org)). One item of the generated output looks like this: jeremymcanally\_pending\_0\_1 = rubyDerivation { name = “ruby-jeremymcanally-pending-0.1”; # full\_name nameNoVersion = “jeremymcanally\_pending”; propagatedBuildInputs = []; src = fetchurl { url = “[RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/jeremymcanally-pending-0.1.gem)”; sha256 = “no hash”; }; meta = { homepage = “[http://jeremymcanally.com](http://jeremymcanally.com)”; license = []; # one of ? description = “pending lets you define a block of test code that is currently "pending" functionality, similar to RSpec’s pending method”; # cut to 120 chars longDescription = “pending lets you define a block of test code that is currently "pending" functionality, similar to RSpec’s pending method.”; }; }; And you can see by “no hash” that something is wrong with this gem. It’s not only that one. By resolving dependencies for: up chronic rubygems-update xrefresh-server rb-inotify jeweler these .gem urls are invalid: [RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/bmabey-fakefs-0.1.1.1.gem) [RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/jeremymcanally-pending-0.1.gem) [RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/devver-construct-1.1.0.gem) [RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/mhennemeyer-output_catcher-1.0.1.gem) [RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/thoughtbot-shoulda-2.10.2.gem) [RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/bmabey-fakefs-0.1.1.1.gem) [RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/jeremymcanally-pending-0.1.gem) [RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/devver-construct-1.1.0.gem) [RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/mhennemeyer-output_catcher-1.0.1.gem) [RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/thoughtbot-shoulda-2.10.2.gem) So what’s happening here? Of course I can start fetching those gems manually from git repositories etc. But isn’t the purpose of gems that I can install them easily ? Should I contact the authors and ask them to upload a new version? Actually I have kind of bootstrapping problem: I’d like to use rake to build the gem files. However rake requires jeweler. I can’t install jeweler because of bad hashs. Is there a way to fix those gem urls? Yes, I am new to ruby. Marc W. ---
**Author:** ![willwach](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/c68b51/32.png) [@willwach](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/willwach)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 10:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-bad-urls/181595/2 "2010-01-14T10:16:59Z")
On 14.01.2010 09:56, Marc W. wrote: > So what’s happening here? Gems are hosted on [gemcutter.org](http://gemcutter.org) by now, not RubyGems. ---
**Author:** ![willwach](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/c68b51/32.png) [@willwach](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/willwach)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-bad-urls/181595/3 "2010-01-14T14:47:23Z")
On Jan 14, 6:16 am, Phillip G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > On 14.01.2010 09:56, Marc W. wrote: > > > So what’s happening here? > > Gems are hosted on [gemcutter.org](http://gemcutter.org) by now, not RubyGems. [gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) == [gemcutter.org](http://gemcutter.org) “Hosted” has nothing to do with “downloading” The above URLs: [http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/bmabey-fakefs-0.1.1.1.gem](http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/bmabey-fakefs-0.1.1.1.gem) Are simple redirects to Amazon S3/CDN hosted files: curl --head [RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/bmabey-fakefs-0.1.1.1.gem) HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:42:11 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) mod\_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 Phusion\_Passenger/2.2.5 X-Powered-By: Phusion Passenger (mod\_rails/mod\_rack) 2.2.5 X-Rack-Cache: miss Location: [http://production.cf.rubygems.org/gems/bmabey-fakefs-0.1.1.1.gem](http://production.cf.rubygems.org/gems/bmabey-fakefs-0.1.1.1.gem) Status: 302 Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Type: text/html ==== If Nix cannot resolve over redirects, then you will need to indicate the CDN location. ---
**Author:** ![willwach](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/c68b51/32.png) [@willwach](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/willwach)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 5:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-bad-urls/181595/4 "2010-01-15T05:39:08Z")
Excerpts from Luis L.'s message of Thu Jan 14 14:45:10 +0100 2010: > # “Hosted” has nothing to do with “downloading” HTTP/1.1 302 Found > > If Nix cannot resolve over redirects, then you will need to indicate > the CDN location. It can. However shouldn’t I be able to download this gem by copy pasting this url into any browser? [http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/bmabey-fakefs-0.1.1.1.gem](http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/bmabey-fakefs-0.1.1.1.gem) → [http://production.cf.rubygems.org/gems/bmabey-fakefs-0.1.1.1.gem](http://production.cf.rubygems.org/gems/bmabey-fakefs-0.1.1.1.gem) Fine. Follow the next redirect as well, please: marc i%curl -I [http://production.cf.rubygems.org/gems/bmabey-fakefs-0.1.1.1.gem](http://production.cf.rubygems.org/gems/bmabey-fakefs-0.1.1.1.gem) /home/marc nixos HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden x-amz-request-id: 931D4C5FBECF8B78 x-amz-id-2: 10cd/tT0szcqveVz+f+uInM31pZaLG6T/wwI0SIK1i/SNtXQbYXuVIDzerqYGsZj Content-Type: application/xml Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:37:17 GMT Server: AmazonS3 X-Cache: Error from cloudfront X-Amz-Cf-Id: fc3f620e9e4e8aab9a72ee9d6aed8ee8b50c555b52119dfe1863dda7a76c795fa31da7b5e6d9b222,230ac8a9dcbf5ae73328942d7d8a086af9191c7b0cf2ab8e1d711c4d078f43ed628c2cd02e5bc1eb Via: 1.0 [a2289d8b15b881db1c42086062568883.cloudfront.net:11180](http://a2289d8b15b881db1c42086062568883.cloudfront.net:11180) (CloudFront), 1.0 [3aa04125cfbe212eb3783a1b1caebdb5.cloudfront.net:11180](http://3aa04125cfbe212eb3783a1b1caebdb5.cloudfront.net:11180) (CloudFront) Connection: close So access is forbidden. Thus the link is broken. Redirection does work fine for many other .gem packages. Marc W.