trouble with slow rubygems

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi there, I'm having a lot of trouble trying to install any gems in ubuntu. Every time I try I get: Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ and then that hangs forever. More often than not I get a server timeout on my SSH session before anything changes - that timeout is currently set to 2 hours.

I don't understand why gem needs to Bulk update *every* time I try to install anything with it.

I also tried: gem install rails --source http://gems.rubyonrails.org and got: Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyonrails.org/ Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyonrails.org/ and then hanging.

I've never had this problem before with gem and I can't work out what might be wrong. Does anyone know what could be causing it to take so long?

thanks dorian

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This may work for you too http://ruby.tie-rack.org/58/speeding-up-gem-on-os-x-leopard/

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I've seen hangs due to memory issues. The bulk update is very hungry. Once the bulk update runs to completion once, things get much faster.