I’m trying to install the thinking sphinx gem, which is on gemcutter.org
When I run the command
gem sources -a http://gemcutter.org
I get the error:
Error fetching http://gemcutter.org:
bad response Not Found 404 (http://gemcutter.org/specs.4.8)
If I change the above URL to http://gemcutter.org.specs.4.8.gz it finds a file. How do I tell rubygems to download with the .gz extension?
It looks like a temporary Gemcutter failure. It works fine to me.
Make sure you are running the latest RubyGems version and install the latest gemcutter gem.
With the gemcutter GEM you type gem tumble to add Gemcutter as source.
EDIT. I just noticed you are using a really outdated RubyGems version.
Update RubyGems first.
If it tells you there’s nothing to update, you have a buggy version (RubyGems 1.2 selfupdate was buggy). Upgrade with the following command.
Then add the source.