On Mar 13, 4:02 pm, Elise Huard <huard.el... / gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i've got a brand new Macbook Pro.
> I've got ruby 1.8.6, as well as the usual gems.
> However, running gem install, or even rspec (which uses gem) takes a
> long time (2 minutes).  I've tried debugging, and got as far as
>    updated = @source_index.update source_uri
> in source_info_cache_entry.rb, which seems to take a while (there
> might be other slow parts, that's just one of them).
> It all works, but for rspec for instance it's quite annoying to have
> to wait that long.
> I tried profiling but that didn't yield anything that i could parse.
>
> Any ideas or similar experience ?
> Thanks,
>
> Elise

You might want to check out this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/4fc65cdd3afbad00

I had the same problem, but only after updating to Leopard.  In that
thread I mention changing my DNS servers, but I've dropped that part
of the solution. Basically, what I did was disable IPv6 (System
Preferences -> Network -> Advanced -> TCP/IP -> Configure IPv6) and
add "require 'resolv-replace'" to my copy of gem at /usr/local/bin/gem
(of course, that goes away after gem update --system).

HTH,
Chris