title: Unable to install 'cocoapods' gem from rubygems.org (bad response backend read error)
body: <p>I'm getting an error when I run 'gem install cocoapods' on OSX Mavericks.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ gem install cocoapods
  ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'cocoapods' (&gt;= 0), here is why:
            Unable to download data from https://rubygems.org/ - bad response backend read error 503 (https://rubygems.global.ssl.fastly.net/quick/Marshal.4.8/cocoapods-0.27.1.gemspec.rz)
  ERROR:  Possible alternatives: cocoapods
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please note that I can download the cocoapods-0.27.1.gemspec.rz directly.  I am running the latest version of XCode (5.0.1) and the latest version of its CLI tools.  RVM is also configured to run the latest Ruby version (2.0.0p247)</p>