On 14 mar, 00:53, Chris Shea <cms... / gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/4f...
>
> 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

Thanks !  I'll try that tonight.  Failing that, i'll check the
version, and upgrade if dated.
Best Regards,

Elise