Here I am yet again at a standstill because the Rails gems have mostly all migrated to Github and the site is down. This is the second or third time this year that Github has messed up and caused me to stop dead in my tracks because I couldn’t access the gems I needed. I can’t even remember the last time my subversion repository went down. This is exactly the reason I thought the Rails community was crazy for mass migrating to Github. Its just not a good idea to have 1 centralized location responsible for all your gems. Especially when they go down all the time. What we need is a company with experience maintaining quality uptime to manage this site in the short term and in the long term we need a more distributed mirror type system to roll-over when Github dies again.

Github down again

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