2009-11-21

Moving to Gemcutter - keeping it clean

It seems the transition from the RubyForge Gems server (http://gems.rubyforge.org/) to the Gemcutter Gems server (http://gemcutter.org/) is nearly complete. The address of the former is now a DNS alias of the later.

If you're like me, you like to keep up-to-date, tidy and clean. In this case that means keeping my RubyGem sources list clean. Here's the quick and simple steps I took on my RubyGem installs to get everything cleaned up.

  1. Add Gemcutter Server - $ sudo gem sources -a http://gemcutter.org/
  2. Remove RubyForge Server - $ sudo gem sources -r http://gems.rubyforge.org/
  3. Remove GitHub Server - $ sudo gem sources -r http://gems.github.com

Note - if you get any errors about the server not being present in the cache, this may be due to a minor difference in the URL used to add the server and the one being used to remove it. For example, a trailing slash. Run sudo gem sources to see all of the servers and the exact URL that's configured.

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