HowTo Update Rubygems by hand 28 Aug 08

The recent security issue with rails has led to several customers having to dabble with Rubygems possibly for the first time. A few have reported problems with the smaller Brightboxes running  older versions of gems. Essentially they run out of memory as Rubygems tries to download and update the entire Rubygems index.

If you have this problem you should upgrade to Rubygems 1.2.0 or greater, which handles the index in a different and less resource intensive way. You will have to install the Rubygems update by hand. I have added some instructions to the wiki about how to do this.