Plugins/Gem Download Slow

Bryce_Roney · December 28, 2007, 11:02pm

Hello,

I'm new to Ruby on Rails and I'm trying to install some plugins/gems, but for some reason when I go to install them it takes the script a long time to start downloading, and even when it starts downloading it seems like the downloads are being capped as they are much slower then normal internet downloads.

Thanks in advance, Bryce R

Bryce_Roney · December 29, 2007, 12:30am

I've been trying to upgrade Rails to 2.0 and I've also been trying to install the Google chart gem - http://railsontherun.com/2007/12/10/google-chart-gem

Bryce_Roney · December 31, 2007, 5:37am

Anyone?

Thufir · December 31, 2007, 7:26am

Windows or Linux? I notice that in windows gems take forever to install and sometimes seem to hang, plus consume a large proportion of system resources.

-Thufir

Bryce_Roney · December 31, 2007, 7:54am

Mac OS X 10.5.1

Thufir · December 31, 2007, 8:51am

I have no idea, sorry. Are you running something like "gem install foo", or is there special mac package manager? On gentoo linux, the package manager installs the gems quickly. Could be a platform issue, maybe.

But, lotsa rails developers are mac users, apparently.

-Thufir