What to do when rubygems.org is down?

Question

I have to setup a rails project and rubygems.org is seemed to be down. That's really horrible. Can't believe it the whole ruby community have only one single not-so-reliable gems source. What should I do in such case?

Answer 1

The best short term thing you can do is set your Gemfile's source to:

source 'http://production.cf.rubygems.org'

which is our CloudFront distribution URL. I would switch back to rubygems.org though once we're back.

In general, I agree with you. It sucks. We're working on making it better.