From: Lasse Koskela <lasse.koskela@...>
Date: 2005-03-26T00:11:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Iterating through a string and removing leading characters

Hi all,

I just tried to install Rails with gem and got this nasty error:


C:\ruby\bin>gem install rails --remote

C:\ruby\bin>"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "c:\ruby\bin\gem" install rails --remote
Attempting remote installation of 'rails'
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Install required dependency rake? [Yn]  y
Install required dependency activesupport? [Yn]  y
Install required dependency activerecord? [Yn]  y
Install required dependency actionpack? [Yn]  y
Install required dependency actionmailer? [Yn]  y
Install required dependency actionwebservice? [Yn]  y
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
`require__': No such file to load -- iconv (LoadError)
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
`require'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:197:in
`require'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-0.8.0/lib/action_mailer/vendor/tmail/quoting.rb:1
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
`require__'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
`require'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:197:in
`require'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-0.8.0/lib/action_mailer/vendor/tmail/mail.rb:18
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
`require__'
         ... 20 levels...
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:90:in
`process_args'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:63:in `run'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:9:in `run'
        from c:/ruby/bin/gem:11

C:\ruby\bin>gem install rails --remote

C:\ruby\bin>"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "c:\ruby\bin\gem" install rails --remote
Attempting remote installation of 'rails'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
`require__': No such file to load -- iconv (LoadError)
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
`require'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:197:in
`require'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-0.8.0/lib/action_mailer/vendor/tmail/quoting.rb:1
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
`require__'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
`require'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:197:in
`require'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-0.8.0/lib/action_mailer/vendor/tmail/mail.rb:18
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
`require__'
         ... 20 levels...
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:90:in
`process_args'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:63:in `run'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:9:in `run'
        from c:/ruby/bin/gem:11


Also, running "ruby -version" produces an error, which I guess could be related:

C:\ruby\bin>ruby -version
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]
-e:1: undefined local variable or method `rsion' for main:Object (NameError)

I had just downloaded and installed the Ruby 1.8.2-14 Windows installer.

My experience with Ruby has so far been playing around with small
hello world'ish scripts so I'd obviously be thankful for any hints
towards what's wrong in my setup.

Thanks.

-Lasse-