From: Tim Shadel <timshadel@...>
Date: 2005-07-13T15:15:38+09:00
Subject: Gem hangs while updating source index (incompatible marshal file format)

Hi,

I'm new to Ruby, and gem is hanging when it attempts to update the gem
source index (which happens every time I try to install anything,
obviously).  I've poked around the archives, and others had the same
symptom, but not the same problem.  I'm on Windows XP Home, with Ruby
installed via Windows installer 1.8.2-15.  Here's what happends, with
debug output.

>gem --debug --backtrace install rails
Exception `Errno::ENOENT' at
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/config_file.rb:12 - No such
file or directory - C:\Documents and Settings\Tim/.gemrc
Attempting local installation of 'rails'
Local gem file not found: rails*.gem
Attempting remote installation of 'rails'
Exception `TypeError' at
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:222 -
incompatible marshal file format (can't be read)
        format version 4.8 required; 45.45 given
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org


I've gone to the gems site and manually downloaded the yaml file, but
I can't seem to figure out how to inject that into the gems local file
organization (and searching for yaml brings up millioins of files, so
I can't really even guess at where to put it).


Any ideas of how to get the right marshal file format, or how to push
the yaml in manually would be much appreciated.  I'm really hoping to
do some serious diving into Rails soon.

Thanks,

Tim
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