I've been trying to workaround the fact that gem install is extremely slow on a 2.9GHz Intel Core 7 MacBook Pro.
I applied solutions I found on the internet:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1887704/gem-is-very-slow
http://buddingrubyist.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/how-to-speed-up-gem-installs-10x/
However they made no difference to me. A few posts including this one (ruby - bundle install/update too slow, first comment to user1189762's answer) says that RubyGems are slower when fetching from HTTPS.
This is my .gemrc:
---
gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc
benchmark: false
verbose: true
update_sources: true
sources:
- http://gems.rubyforge.org/
- http://rubygems.org/
backtrace: true
bulk_threshold: 1000
My sources are both using http, however if doing a verbose installation I get:
$ sudo gem install rack -V
Password:
GET https://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
302 Moved Temporarily
GET https://s3.amazonaws.com/production.s3.rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
200 OK
GET https://rubygems.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/rack-1.5.2.gemspec.rz
302 Moved Temporarily
GET https://s3.amazonaws.com/production.s3.rubygems.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/rack-1.5.2.gemspec.rz
200 OK
Installing gem rack-1.5.2
All The requests are being made with https.
Anyway to force http in gemrc? Is that my bottleneck?