On Nov 20, 2009, at 6:54 PM, Justin Collins wrote:

> Junmin Liu wrote:
>> i was trying to update the rubygem preinstalled in macos 10.5.7 by:sudo
>> gem update --system or gem
>> update --system.
>> 
>> but i am getting this:
>> 
>>  
>>> sudo gem update --system
>>>    
>> Updating RubyGems...
>> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteSourceException)
>>   HTTP Response 403 fetching http://gems.rubyforge.org/yaml
>> 
>> Any idea?
>> 
>> my gem is 1.0.1, and ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287)
>> [universal-darwin9.0]
>> Thanks,
>>  
> 
> Install it manually from here:
> http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126&release_id=37073
> 
> Automatically updating (much) older versions of RubyGems often does not work.

That's the thing to do, yup.  I don't think we even produce the old uncompressed yaml gem index now.

Yours,

Tom