From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2004-10-05T22:28:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails gem install failure

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 10:19:05PM +0900, Joey Gibson wrote:
> 
> >C:\DOCUME~1\DESMOND>gem -i rubygems
> >Attempting local installation of 'rubygems'
> >-> Local installation can't proceed: Unknown gem file 'rubygems'
> >Attempting remote installation of 'rubygems'
> >Successfully installed rubygems-update version 0.8.1
> >
> >C:\DOCUME~1\DESMOND>gem -i rails
> >Attempting local installation of 'rails'
> >-> Local installation can't proceed: Unknown gem file 'rails'
> >Attempting remote installation of 'rails'
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >undefined method `version_requirement' for #<Gem::Dependency:0x53a52d8>
> > 
> >
> 
> In both instances you are trying to do a "local" install, which means 
> you are trying to install from a gem repository that is on the same 
> machine. You want to do a remote install.
> 
> "gem install --remote rails" should do what you want

I don't think so. See the line I highlighted above. The 'undefined method'
error is the actual problem.