[Rubygems-developers] Running a gem server

[Jim Freeze]

I'm having trouble getting a gem to install from a local
server (machine to machine on our coporate net, both behind
a firewall). From what I remember, this use to work.

I have a gem installed on machine A and run gem_server.
  
  gem install <gemname.spec>
  gem_server

On machine B I type

  gem install <gemname>  --source http://10.0.0.1:8808

where 10.0.0.1:8808 is the IP of machine B.

The response I get is:

  gem install <gemname> --source http://10.0.0.1:8808 
  Attempting local installation of '<gemname>'
  Local gem file not found: <gemname>*.gem
  Attempting remote installation of '<gemname>'
  Updating Gem source index for: http://10.0.0.1:8808
  ERROR:  While executing gem ... (OpenURI::HTTPError)
      503 Service Unavailable


Any help will be appreciated.
-- 
Jim Freeze