[Rubygems-developers] [ rubygems-Feature Requests-27457 ] more specific error message when a gem fails to install

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Feature Requests item #27457, was opened at 2009-11-19 03:07
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Category: `gem install` command
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Greg Hazel (ghazel)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: more specific error message when a gem fails to install

Initial Comment:
Currently, gem reports errors like this:

C:\gem install eventmachine --source http://gemcutter.org
ERROR:  could not find gem eventmachine locally or in a repository

even if the real error is that the source failed, but the gem does exist:

GET 500 Internal Server Error: http://gemcutter.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/eventmachine-0.12.0-i386-mswin32.gemspec.rz

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Instead, simply displaying the error message:

ERROR:  bad response Internal Server Error 500 (http://gemcutter.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/eventmachine-0.12.0-i386-mswin32.gemspec.rz)

would be more helpful. Even something as terse as:

ERROR:  bad response Internal Server Error 500
or
ERROR:  bad response Internal Server Error 500 (http://gemcutter.org)

serves to indicate the error is with a remote server, not that the gem is not found.




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