I have been trying for the last three days on two different debian
linux platforms x386 and amd64 using different rubygems versions
1.1.1, 1.2.0 and 1.3.1 to update gems on my system. No way! It only
says it’s doing a bulk source update, eats all memory and does
nothing. The longest I was waiting was 10 hours. Surely that’s enough
to update rails installation with dependencies and a couple of other
gems on a 1Mb cable line? It seems I’ll have to learn to live with
manual gem downloads. So my question is: how do you live without
rubygems when you have to? Has anyone any shell scripts that use awk
or sed, tar and wget? I’m sure they would do a better job. I’m close
to start writing one but maybe someone already got something like
this.
The only time I’ve run into anything similar is when my internet has
either went kaput or a firewall setting at work stopped me from
downloading any gems automatically. I would maybe check there first.
You can download the .gem files yourself and install them. Since
rubygems 1.2 i’ve never had any problems, but prior versions were a
bit problematic (especially on machines with not so much memory)
I got 512 MB. Maybe that’s too little? I don’t think it’s the internet
problem. I can download RubyGems.org | your community gem host (27 M) with
wget in 3 min 46 s.
So what RAM size would you recommend? If 512MB is too little another
tool is really needed, at least for those on low memory VPSs.
I don’t honestly know, but what I was trying to say is that that
problem has gone away since rubygems 1.2. If you’ve still got that
problem then it’s something else
I got 512 MB. Maybe that’s too little? I don’t think it’s the internet
problem. I can download RubyGems.org | your community gem host (27 M) with
wget in 3 min 46 s.
You might well be under pressure with that much ram. I’ve never had
that problem since rubygems 1.2
What on earth could it be? Ruby version? Mine is 1.8.7 (2008-08-11
patchlevel 72) [x86_64-linux] I tried again latest (1.3.1) version and
it behaves the same. It slowly eats memory until about 80% and then
starts swapping heavily. Maybe that’s simply the way it’s supposed to
be nowadays and one can only add more RAM? Can you say how much RAM
you got?
It’s a problem with your particular version of Rubygems. I just worked
around it here. The amount of RAM you need for the bulk update depends
on the amount of Gems you have installed.
The easy solution is to upgrade to 1.3.0 or higher where bulk updating
no longer happens.