$ gem instal ultraviolet
ERROR: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ does not appear to be a repository
ERROR: could not find gem ultraviolet locally or in a repository
### Solution
Most of the time, it's the http server being down. Rsync often keeps on working.
So we can get the gems via rsync
$ rsync -av rsync://master.mirror.rubyforge.org/gems/* mylocaldir
$ gem install -l