From: Bob Hutchison <hutch@...>
Date: 2006-10-28T21:28:16+09:00
Subject: Re: upgrade on OS X


On 27-Oct-06, at 6:56 PM, Tim McIntyre wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Wasn't sure if this should go to the ruby or rails list but here we  
> are...
>
> I've been running OS X (10.8.4) with the packaged ruby (1.8.2) and  
> rails for some time, no problems.  I decided to test out mongrel  
> but that requires >= 1.8.4 so I grabbed the 1.8.5 source, built  
> that then modified my path and all good... up and running.
>
> The problem is all my gems are gone.  Well they're not gone of  
> course but "gem list --local" shows nothing and, of course, nothing  
> that depends on them works.  I've looked around a good bit but  
> haven't seen anything about this.
>
> Any ideas on why this is?


The ruby as shipped by apple is not in the same place on disk as the  
1.8.5 distribution you built. In my case 1.8.5 is in /usr/local/...  
and so the gems are in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ -- your  
gems won't be there.

You can set the GEM_HOME environment variable, or re-install your  
gems. I re-installed.

BTW, if you are using gcc4 as shipped by Apple, you should re-compile  
with -O or -O1 rather than -O2, or use gcc3 -- with -O2 you will get  
strange heap problems after running ruby for a while.

Cheers,
Bob

>
> Thanks in advance!
> Tim
>
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>

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