From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2004-09-16T23:43:18+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyGems 0.8.0

Thanks.  We've had several reports of similar things on Windows (and
gotten quite a bit of data from some of them).  We'll have a look and
release a patch as soon as we've got a fix.

Chad

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Austin Ziegler wrote:

# On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:55:59 +0900, Chad Fowler <chad@chadfowler.com> wrote:
# > Marking the 3000th download of RubyGems
# > (http://rubygems.rubyforge.org ), we are pleased to announce the release
# > of RubyGems 0.8.0!  The reaction and participation of the community so
# > far as been astounding...keep those gems coming--this is your show;
# > we're just trying to provide a little infrastructure!
#
# Sadly, I have an error to report on installation:
#
# c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/installer.rb:139:in `generate_bin_s
# cripts': You don't have write permissions into the c:/bin directory. (Gem::FileP
# ermissionError)
#         from c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/installer.rb:69:in `in
# stall'
#         from install.rb:144:in `install_rb'
#         from install.rb:148
#
# I was using
#
#     gem install rubygems-update
#     update_rubygems
#
# Note where my ruby is: C:/Apps/Ruby -- yet it still tried to install
# something into C:/Bin.
#
# -austin
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