From: John Gabriele <jmg3000@...>
Date: 2006-06-29T06:06:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with gem install, rubygems 0.9.0

On 6/28/06, Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Solaris 10
> Ruby 1.8.4
> gems 0.9.0
>
> I did a fresh install of Ruby, installed gems via "ruby setup.rb", and tried by
> my first 'gem install'.  This is what I got:
>
> djberge@~/local/src/ruby-516>sudo gem install pathname2
> Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NameError)
>      undefined local variable or method `other' for 1:Fixnum
>
> I got the same result regardless of whether or not RUBYOPT was set.
>
> Any ideas?

Just curious, it looks like you installed Ruby into your home
directory (~/local/src/ruby516) -- why then run gem via sudo?