Ruby on Rails on OSX 10.6

A bit of frustration picking up Rails again on Mac. It seemed that I could not install rails via the

>gem install rails

command. I kept getting an exception like this:

ERROR: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ does not appear to be a repository

Well, I kept messing with gems.rubyforge.org, when it appear that the gems install on the mac was actually the problem. So I tried gem udpate --system, which, of course, failed because it tries to talk to gems.rubyforge.org.

Solution...go to http://rubygems.org/pages/download and manually download an updated gems..once I did this, gems, now properly configured with the gem repository, seems to work fine.

Back to Rails and Ruby after something of hiatus, delayed for several hours messing with gems. Tolerating frustration is a vital part of the developer's tool-set.