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Justin

26 Aug, 2010 07:54 PM

I submitted a patch to Rubyforge for this a while ago in response to a Ruby Bounty but I thought I would try again now that RubyGems has moved to GitHub.

Code is here.

The patch provides suggestions like these:

$ gem install red_cloth
ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'red_cloth' (>= 0) in any repository
        Possible alternatives: RedCloth

$ gem install nokojiri
ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'nokojiri' (>= 0) in any repository
        Possible alternatives: nokogiri, nokogirl

$ gem install sinatar-capcha
ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'sinatar-capcha' (>= 0) in any repository
        Possible alternatives: sinatra-captcha, sinatra-cache, sinatra-cas, sinatra-auth, sinatra-css, sinatra-path, sinatras-hat

1. Support Staff 2 Posted by Nick Quaranto on 31 Aug, 2010 02:50 AM

   

   Oh sweet. I've been considering doing this.

   Eric, John, any thoughts? Is there anything we could do on the server side at rubygems.org to speed this up?

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