Tag Archives: gem

Remove Invalid Ruby Gem Source

By TechKnow | March 20, 2012

I was trying to install a Ruby gem and it keep failing. I keep getting the following error when installing a gem. ERROR: http://gems.datamapper.org does not appear to be a repository ERROR: could not find gem thin locally or in a repository Because of the above error I couldn’t install a gem or even update [...]

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Download Twitter Profile Images Using Ruby

By TechKnow | October 27, 2009

Recently, I gave myself the small task of going through all my Twitter retries and downloading each profile image from each Twitter user that replied to me. To access my Twitter replies I used the Twitter Ruby Gem. I am using Twitter gem version 0.4.1. The script is small and pretty concise that it can [...]

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