From: Dennis Ranke <dennis.ranke@...>
Date: 2004-09-16T20:49:49+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyGems 0.8.0 (failing to install)

Hi!

When trying to install the new rubygems 0.8 on a winxp system (latest  
one-click installer), I get the following error:

E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\dranke\Eigene  
Dateien\rubygems-0.8.0>install.rb

As of RubyGems 0.8.0, library stubs are no longer needed.
Searching $LOAD_PATH for stubs to optionally delete (may take a while)...
....done.
No library stubs found.

   Successfully built RubyGem
   Name: sources
   Version: 0.0.1
   File: sources-0.0.1.gem
e:/programme/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/installer.rb:139:in  
`generate_
bin_scripts': You don't have write permissions into the e:/bin directory.  
(Gem::
FilePermissionError)
         from  
e:/programme/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/installer.rb:69:i
n `install'
         from E:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/dranke/Eigene  
Dateien/rubygems-0.8.0
/install.rb:144:in `install_rb'
         from E:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/dranke/Eigene  
Dateien/rubygems-0.8.0
/install.rb:148

E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\dranke\Eigene Dateien\rubygems-0.8.0>irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'rbconfig'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> Config::CONFIG['bindir']
=> "e:/programme/ruby/bin"

So far, I have been unable to figure out where the "e:/bin" comes from,  
this directory doesn't exist on this computer.

In installer.rb: generate_bin_scripts CONFIG['bindir'] evaluates to the  
correct "e:/programme/ruby/bin" while Config::CONFIG['bindir'] evaluates  
to "e:/bin". When I change generate_bin_scripts to use CONFIG['bindir']  
the install finishes without errors, but the sources gem is not installed  
and trying to install it manually produces:

E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\dranke\Eigene  
Dateien\rubygems-0.8.0\packages\sou
rces>gem install sources-0.0.1.gem
Attempting local installation of 'sources-0.0.1.gem'
ERROR:  Error installing gem sources-0.0.1.gem[.gem]: uninitialized  
constant Gem
::Installer::CONFIG

I hope someone has some kind of idea what causes all of this.

-- 
exoticorn/farbrausch