Can't download 1.8.7 installer from RubyForge

[Wayne Vucenic]

(This seems to be a general RubyForge problem, rather than anything
specific to Ruby Installer, so I tried posting a message in the
RubyForge help forum (message appended below). I haven't gotten any
response on RubyForge, so I figured I'd try asking here.)

Is anyone else having the same problem downloading from RubyForge, or
is it just me?

Is there a mirror or someplace else I can download the 1.8.7 installer from?

Thanks!!!

Wayne

===================

For the past 4 or 5 days I've been having trouble downloading one of
the rubyinstaller files:

http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/69034/rubyinstaller-1.8.7-p249-rc2.exe

It downloads 8K or 16K of the file, then the download stops at this
point, and nothing further is downloaded for several hours, at which
time I cancel it.

This happens with Chrome and with Firefox, on two different systems. I
had the same problem on files from other projects on RubyForge, but I
can successfully download from other web sites, so I don't think the
problem is on my end.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Wayne Vucenic

[Luis Lavena]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Wayne Vucenic <way...@gmail.com> wrote:
> (This seems to be a general RubyForge problem, rather than anything
> specific to Ruby Installer, so I tried posting a message in the
> RubyForge help forum (message appended below).  I haven't gotten any
> response on RubyForge, so I figured I'd try asking here.)
>
> Is anyone else having the same problem downloading from RubyForge, or
> is it just me?
>
> Is there a mirror or someplace else I can download the 1.8.7 installer from?
>

You can try downloading from one of the mirrors directly:

http://files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/rubyinstaller/rubyinstaller-1.8.7-p249-rc2.exe

I haven't uploaded these files to RubyInstaller CDN, once we reach
final and complete the website will proceed to mirror these there.

HTH,
--
Luis Lavena
AREA 17
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Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[Jon]

just tried it from our download page at http://rubyinstaller.org/download.html and it worked using ff 3.5.8.

the link on our download page points to the same link Wayne used and resolved to the same link Luis mentioned.

Jon

[Luis Lavena]

It depends on the geoip from where Wayne is accessing RubyForge.

[Wayne Vucenic]

Hi Luis and Jon,

Thank you so much for your very prompt and helpful responses!

I tried downloading from

http://files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/rubyinstaller/rubyinstaller-1.8.7-p249-rc2.exe

and I still had the same problem.

It sounds like the problem is somewhere on my end (since it works for others),
so I'll try to figure out what's going on.

Regarding geoip, I'm in Silicon Valley, and my ISP is Comcast Cable.
Currently, my IP is 24.7.52.xxx.

Thanks,

Wayne

[Luis Lavena]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Wayne Vucenic <night...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Luis and Jon,
>
> Thank you so much for your very prompt and helpful responses!
>
> I tried downloading from
>
> http://files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/rubyinstaller/rubyinstaller-1.8.7-p249-rc2.exe
>
> and I still had the same problem.
>
> It sounds like the problem is somewhere on my end (since it works for others),
> so I'll try to figure out what's going on.
>
> Regarding geoip, I'm in Silicon Valley, and my ISP is Comcast Cable.
> Currently, my IP is 24.7.52.xxx.

To my bad I cannot find another mirror link to provide for you, so for
this rare situation I've uploaded the same packages to drop.io:

http://drop.io/rubyinstaller4588

Please, any other user reading this, only use in case that official
RubyForge links doesn't work for you.

[Wayne Vucenic]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Luis Lavena <luisl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> To my bad I cannot find another mirror link to provide for you, so for
> this rare situation I've uploaded the same packages to drop.io:
>
> http://drop.io/rubyinstaller4588

Hi Luis,

Thank you very much for doing this! 1.8.7 downloaded just fine from
drop.io. (And, of course, it also installed fine.)

Just in case, I also downloaded 1.8.6 and 1.9.1.

Thanks again for all your help!!!

Wayne

---
Wayne Vucenic
No Bugs Software
Agile Ruby (preferably not Rails) and C# Contract Programming in Silicon Valley

[rbarton]

As a note, I encountered the same issue trying to download
RubyInstaller packages from RubyForge (I'm in Guelph, Ontario,
Canada), but was able to use the drop.io site fine. I also found at
least one other encountering a similar issue via Twitter Search:
http://twitter.com/GlennHalstead/statuses/10137730637

Thanks for the workaround Luis!

Ryan

On Mar 3, 3:49 am, Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Wayne Vucenic <nightpho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Luis and Jon,
>
> > Thank you so much for your very prompt and helpful responses!
>
> > I tried downloading from
>

> >http://files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/rubyinstaller/rubyinstaller-...

>
> > and I still had the same problem.
>
> > It sounds like the problem is somewhere on my end (since it works for others),
> > so I'll try to figure out what's going on.
>
> > Regarding geoip, I'm in Silicon Valley, and my ISP is Comcast Cable.
> > Currently, my IP is 24.7.52.xxx.
>
> To my bad I cannot find another mirror link to provide for you, so for
> this rare situation I've uploaded the same packages to drop.io:
>
> http://drop.io/rubyinstaller4588
>

> Please, any other user reading this, only use in case that officialRubyForgelinks doesn't work for you.

[Dutch Caramel]

The link does not work for me either. I am from Mississauga, ON
Canada.
Very very strange??

Thanks for the new link. My only question now is, what is the diff
between 1.8.6, 1.8.7 and 1.9.1?

What are the pros and cons if any? I have Windows Vista, should I go
with any specific one.

I also have WAMP installed on my comp. I will post this question again
elsewhere hoping for a response....cheers

[travis]

Same issue here, on Time Warner Cable in NYC. Whatever the problem
is, it continues. Thanks again for the drop.io link.

[Jon]

> Same issue here, on Time Warner Cable in NYC. Whatever the problem
> is, it continues. Thanks again for the drop.io link.

So I'm clear, did you try appending "/noredirect" to the end of the download URLs and still had the problem?

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/browse_thread/thread/18862278d19676f0

If this *doesn't* solve the problem, please let Tom @ RubyForge know by posting to

http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=47493&forum_id=2

...and we may also need to look into making the downloads available from the project's GitHub download link at

http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/downloads

or look at other options.

Please double check whether the "/noredirect" option works and let us know.

Jon

[Luis Lavena]

For the record (FYI), I'm having the same problem downloading any file
from RubyForge (everything is redirected to UK, and speed is almost
zero)

The /noredirect at the end of the URL works, but seems that alternate
download locations will be needed pretty soon if this issue remains.

[Jon]

> For the record (FYI), I'm having the same problem downloading any file
> from RubyForge (everything is redirected to UK, and speed is almost
> zero)
>
> The /noredirect at the end of the URL works, but seems that alternate
> download locations will be needed pretty soon if this issue remains.

While I like the looks of the following

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Mirrors

and I like that you can segregate the downloads into folders (doesn't appear that GitHub allows folders), I haven't tried out their system to know if we could script the uploads for distribution through the mirrors via pscp, or whether you have to manually upload via a web page similar to GitHub.

This following info isn't entirely clear but it looks as if that, while you can upload to your project dir via scp/sftp, it's not clear that this will push the files into the mirror system. Anyone know for sure?

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Release%20files%20for%20download

While I like the idea of trying to keep the project assets together as much as possible, and would prefer having the files at the project's GitHub site, I really like the download folders at SourceForge ala http://sourceforge.net/projects/asciidoc/files/

Maybe Team GitHub is already planning this....

http://groups.google.com/group/github/browse_thread/thread/65d87b9928399095

What do you prefer? Any others we should investigate?

Jon

[travis]

I apologize for the delay. In case you were still wondering, their /
noredirect workaround does work for me as well.

On Apr 10, 12:34 pm, Jon <jon.for...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Same issue here, on Time Warner Cable in NYC.  Whatever the problem
> > is, it continues.  Thanks again for the drop.io link.
>
> So I'm clear, did you try appending "/noredirect" to the end of the download URLs and still had the problem?
>

> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/browse_thread/thread/188...

>
> If this *doesn't* solve the problem, please let Tom @ RubyForge know by posting to
>
> http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=47493&forum_id=2
>
> ...and we may also need to look into making the downloads available from the project's GitHub download link at
>
> http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/downloads
>
> or look at other options.
>
> Please double check whether the "/noredirect" option works and let us know.
>
> Jon

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