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    <title>Robby on Rails: RubyGems mirror to kill the wait</title>
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      <title>RubyGems mirror to kill the wait</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Like &lt;a href="http://piece.dpiddy.net/articles/2005/10/18/need-more-power-and-speed"&gt;Dan Peterson&lt;/a&gt;, I have setup a mirror of the RubyGems repository on the same server that is an official RubyForge mirror.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://rubyforge.planetargon.com/gems.rubyforge.org"&gt;http://rubyforge.planetargon.com/gems.rubyforge.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;div class="typocode"&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code class="typocode_ruby "&gt;
&lt;span class="ident"&gt;gem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="ident"&gt;install&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="punct"&gt;--&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ident"&gt;source&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="ident"&gt;http&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="punct"&gt;:/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="regex"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="punct"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ident"&gt;rubyforge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="punct"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ident"&gt;planetargon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="punct"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ident"&gt;com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="punct"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ident"&gt;gems&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="punct"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ident"&gt;rubyforge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="punct"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ident"&gt;org&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="ident"&gt;postgres&lt;/span&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;The RubyForge mirror team is working on a gem mirroring solution&amp;#8230; and in the meantime, this is my attempt to help out with the load.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Dan also noted that you could modify the &lt;code&gt;.gemrc&lt;/code&gt; file:&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;div class="typocode"&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code class="typocode_ruby "&gt;&lt;span class="ident"&gt;gem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="punct"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="punct"&gt;--&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ident"&gt;source&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="ident"&gt;http&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="punct"&gt;:/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="regex"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="punct"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ident"&gt;rubyforge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="punct"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ident"&gt;planetargon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="punct"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ident"&gt;com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="punct"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ident"&gt;gems&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="punct"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ident"&gt;rubyforge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="punct"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ident"&gt;org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

	&lt;p&gt;Thanks Danp for pointing this out&amp;#8230; and Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;
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