From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2005-09-12T03:44:11+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie mysteries

List and Wayne,

> As Nicholas said, this does sound like a path problem.

For some reason, Nicholas' email came to me with only the text to which he  
was replying. It was empty, otherwise, so I never got his email, in effect.

About the hypothesis that I'm having a path problem - I thought this too,  
and so moved my one line program to 	"C:\ruby\rubygems-0.8.11\bin", so  
that "gem" could be in the root and thus be found. It was...but the error  
message remained the same:

---
C:/ruby/rubygems-0.8.11/bin/railsinstall.rb:1: warning: parenthesize  
argument(s) for future version
C:/ruby/rubygems-0.8.11/bin/railsinstall.rb:1: warning: parenthesize  
argument(s) for future version
C:/ruby/rubygems-0.8.11/bin/railsinstall.rb:1: undefined method `-@' for  
Object:Class (NoMethodError)
Execution completed with exit code 1.
---

QUESTION: Where I can find out what these warnings are saying?

Clearly, these is no path problem at this point. Rather, something seems  
wrong with the statement I'm trying to execute -

gem install rails --include-dependencies

As I said earlier, this is taken exactly as I found it on the Rail web  
site - exactly.

QUESTIONS
---------

1. HOW can I tell what module is kicking out those warnings, and the  
"undefined method" message? Is there some default assumption about origin  
of error messages which I should know about?

2. Is there some documentation source for the error messages?

3. On the assumptions that it was gem which was having a problem, I  
scoured the unzipped source folders, etc. for meaningful documentation,  
and amazed to find nothing - except a reference to the rubygems website.  
There, I found a " Command reference" for  a version of gem which is FOUR  
versions older than the current one. There was NO comment about whether  
this was to be trusted, no mention of when it might be updated, or if this  
was needed. How helpful is THIS supposed to be? Sounds like documentation  
hell to me.
    The "RubyGems User Guide" contains a link to the "gem Command  
Reference" - which is the same apparently severely out of date page  
mentioned in the previous paragraph.

CONCLUSION
----------

I'm left with the presumption, at thie point, that the latest version of  
gem has some command line requirements which are documented nowhere, and  
not recognized by the Rails site.

I'm completely stuck at this point.

All suggestions welcome.

-- t.

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