Ruby Gems Not Installing, Hangs While Getting Gems
Solution 1
For me
sudo gem install rails -V
showed that it wasn't hanging, it was just taking a long time.
Solution 2
You probably just need to update your RVM.
Note that it's not really hanging so much as it's just taking 3 minutes to tell you whoops! Should have used sudo.
From this blog post this on command line works:
curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby
Solution 3
I also experienced this issue. After installing ri1.8, it started to work properly (I use Ubuntu 10.04):
sudo apt-get -y install ri1.8
Solution 4
Reason of slow working is convert RDoc into HTML during installation. Just disable it via --no-rdoc --no-ri options.
gem install your_gem --no-rdoc --no-ri
Tim Hoolihan
I'm Sr. Director of Data Science at DialogTech, a marketing technology company focused on voice analytics and insights.
Updated on December 10, 2020Comments
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Tim Hoolihan over 3 years
I recently cleared out all of my ruby install and installed form sources using the instructions at hivelogic
I have have been able to install a few gems, but most of the time, "sudo gem install rails" hangs. I've added the -V flag, and it just seems to hang, I don't get any error. And the process can not be killed. I can only reboot to kill the process.
My ruby info:
[tim@ ~]# ruby -v ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i686-darwin10.2.0] [tim@ ~]# gem -v 1.3.6 [tim@ ~]# gem environment RubyGems Environment: - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.6 - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i686-darwin10.2.0] - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/local/bin/ruby - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/local/bin - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS: - ruby - x86-darwin-10 - GEM PATHS: - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 - /Users/tim/.gem/ruby/1.8 - GEM CONFIGURATION: - :update_sources => true - :verbose => true - :benchmark => false - :backtrace => false - :bulk_threshold => 1000 - :sources => ["http://gems.rubyforge.org/", "http://gems.rubyforge.org"] - REMOTE SOURCES: - http://gems.rubyforge.org/ - http://gems.rubyforge.org [tim@ ~]# which ruby /usr/local/bin/ruby [tim@ ~]# which gem /usr/local/bin/gem [tim@ ~]# uname -a Darwin tim-hoolihans-macbook-pro-15.local 10.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.2.0: Tue Nov 3 10:37:10 PST 2009; root:xnu-1486.2.11~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 [tim@ ~]#
Any ideas?
Answer:
I built again with the following line and don't have the problem now:
ARCHFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch x86_64' sudo ./configure --enable--shared --enable-pthread CFLAGS=-D_XOPEN_SOURCE=1
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user435779 over 11 yearsUpvoted. While I'm still not convinced something else isn't wrong (it seems to be taking an unaccountably long time to do simple HTTP gets), the -V tells me something is happening. Thanks for the suggestion.
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drewwyatt almost 11 yearsLooks like I was running into the same issue.
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DiegoSahagun about 10 yearsAnd what if I've been waiting for one hour and all I see is: 'xStation> gem install rails -v 3.2.0 -V GET 301 Moved Permanently: gems.rubyforge.org/specs.4.8.gz GET 302 Moved Temporarily: rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz GET 200 OK: s3.amazonaws.com/production.s3.rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz'
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Clarice Bouwer almost 9 yearsPerhaps it should be verbose by default?
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astrojuanlu about 8 yearsApparently, Ruby is still terribly slow.