Problems with Ruby Gems

I thought I’d finally take a look at Mongrel and see whether it was worth changing my configuration from Lighttpd/FCGI. So far it’s been pretty stable (with only the odd restart needed every few month or so), but Mongrel’s had such a good response I couldn’t resist.

However, it looks like Ruby Gems is failing to work on my VPS. Below is what I run and the output:

sudo gem install daemons   Password:   Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org   Killed

I was originally on an old version of Gems, so I downloaded the latest release (0.9.0), but same result.

If I run the same above on my PowerBook G4

pablo:~/work/mephisto/trunk pingles$ sudo gem install daemonsPassword:Attempting local installation of 'daemons'Local gem file not found: daemons*.gemAttempting remote installation of 'daemons'Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.orgSuccessfully installed daemons-0.4.4Installing RDoc documentation for daemons-0.4.4...

D’oh. Not too sure what’s causing it, and a quick poke around Google and Google Groups didn’t yield any information about log files etc. Does anyone have any suggestions?