Last night, we resolved some issues with our RubyForge mirror that was originally launched in the Fall of 2005. It hadn’t been mirroring in a long time and as RubyForge has been having some DoS attacks, we wanted to do what we could to help people get access to their precious gems.

The mirror is being sync’d every few hours, so you should be able to get the latest gems from our mirror.

Here are two methods for installing gems from the PLANET ARGON RubyForge Mirror.

Pass—source

Pass the URL to our rubygems mirror to the --source parameter.

$ gem install --source <a href="http://rubyforge.planetargon.com/gems.rubyforge.org">http://rubyforge.planetargon.com/gems.rubyforge.org</a> postgres

Add mirror to your .gemrc

Open up the file ~/.gemrc and add t he following.

# .gemrc
gem: --source <a href="http://rubyforge.planetargon.com/gems.rubyforge.org">http://rubyforge.planetargon.com/gems.rubyforge.org</a>

Let us know if you find any issues with the setup and we’ll look into it.

Enjoy!