issues with gem updating and installing on new Ruby on Rails Production setup

I am having a big issue with updating my gems on a new production server I am building.

I am running it on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

I have rubygems version 1.8.24, ruby version 1.9.3-p125, rails version 3.2.3.

Whenever i run the command `gem update` or gem `update --system`, it took hours for it to complete the first time.

Any ideas as to why this would be slow?

I am trying to see if its something with our firewall; but when I watch the traffic coming from that specific server, I am not seeing any deny messages.


Below i have added the command line view when i did sudo gem install rails -V

This is not all the code it is just the last 1000 lines since i had a limit on my terminal window.

Hopefully this provides some more insight into what may be happening

Gem install Rails verbose code