Where can I install gems from when rubygems.org is down?

Currently Rubygems.org is down - the website reports an error, and a few gem install tasks are returning 500 errors.

Is there a mirror / backup source of gem files, or is rubygems.org essentially a single point of failure within the ruby gem installation process ?

Mirror for Asia/Pacific Region: [`https://ruby.taobao.org/`][1] (recommended, high availability, syncing every 15 min)

Other mirrors:

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If you've got the gem on some other computer, or on other rubies on the same
computer, use
<code>gem server</code>
to create your own gem server.

Otherwise, download the source code for the gem in question from github, and do
the rake task to build the gem.

As per several folks on Twitter, add this to your Gemfile:

source 'https://production.cf.rubygems.org'

Also, if you're not using Bundler you can just run:

$ gem source -a 'https://production.cf.rubygems.org'

For the record, the folks on Twitter include:

[laizer](

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), and [jimneath](

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). Major thanks to them for saving my morning :)

Having experienced my share of flaky network connections I find I've most often got the .gem files I need on my system, it's just a matter of finding them and installing them locally.

Use the `find` command to find local `.gem` files and install them directly with `gem install [file]`.

find ~/.rbenv/versions -type f -name 'minitest*.gem'

That works for individual gems but if you need to install dependencies, etc. it can be a pain.

same issue affecting all git push to **Heroku**

solved the same was by changing the source on GemFile to the

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