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Rubygems has at least one public mirror: http://stackoverflow.com/a/17150536/437888

There are also solutions such as https://github.com/pusewicz/rubygems-proxy allowing you to cache / proxy to rubygems.org

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But the mirror posted their doesn't work for me. I get always a Forbidden message: http://mirror1.prod.rhcloud.com/mirror/ruby/. Or is it just me?

You are not supposed to be able to hit the url in your browser. You are supposed to use it as a gem source in a Gemfile or with the gem command line tool.

There is also http://gems.gzruby.org/ if you happen to be behind the Great Firewall of China

Thanks for the hint. I really didn't know that. I will update the blog post with my new knowledge. One point more for Bundler/RubyGems :-)

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