Force RubyGems to use HTTP
问题 I've been trying to workaround the fact that gem install is extremely slow on a 2.9GHz Intel Core 7 MacBook Pro. I applied solutions I found on the internet: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1887704/gem-is-very-slow http://buddingrubyist.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/how-to-speed-up-gem-installs-10x/ However they made no difference to me. A few posts including this one (ruby - bundle install/update too slow, first comment to user1189762's answer) says that RubyGems are slower when fetching from