Rubygems swapping out slice fix.

June, 21 2008 10:14 PM
Rubygems 1.1.1 has a memory problem and will attempt to download more than it should when trying to install gems. In order to fix this problem, you have to upgrade rubygems to the latest version (1.2.0) which includes patches that now only pulls the necessary gemspecs from rubyforge. Here is how you upgrade:

wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/38645/rubygems-update-1.2.0.gem

gem install rubygems-update-1.2.0.gem --local
update_rubygems

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