From: James Tucker <jftucker@...>
Date: 2010-07-13T09:30:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:31233] Re: [Bug #3140] gem activation has changed between 1.8 and 1.9


On 13 Jul 2010, at 01:04, Roger Pack wrote:

>> If you 'gem install mongrel' on 1.9, it will fail (for a valid reason). The directory is not removed because that would prevent users from debugging the build process by reading 'gem_make.out' that is left there for this purpose.
> 
> Yeah I've run into this before.  I even filed a bug for it with
> rubygems, but nothing was done.  Maybe Eric is too busy?

It is NOT a bug in rubygems. It's a bug in gem_prelude.rb. gem_prelude.rb is broken by design. I may have even marked that ticket as invalid for you.

This is the same as your bin_path 'enhancements' for prelude, they're making these issues worse.