Ubuntu Bundler HTTPError

Question

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04. When I installed Ruby and gems, everything worked fine for a while, but then from one point on Bundler started showing errors:

Fetching gem metadata from http://rubygems.org/.
Error Bundler::HTTPError during request to dependency API
Fetching full source index from http://rubygems.org/

Then it stays like that until some moment in the space-time continuum. Before it used to bundle gems in an extremely low speed, but now it just doesn't do anything.

I'm pretty newbish when it comes to system administration, pinging, proxies etc. but I tried everything I could find on the internet, using HTTP instead of HTTPS, checking if my terminal correctly resolves the URL, reinstalling bundler... even logging out and back in.

Any suggestions on how I should start debugging this problem?

Answer 1

The issue with dependency API is because that part of RubyGems server is currently down. Take a look at http://status.rubygems.org/