From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2007-02-24T03:59:55+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygems and CentOS 4.4


On Feb 23, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Brian Candler wrote:

> Something very strange has happened for me, and I'd like to know if  
> I'm
> doing something stupid.
>
> I wanted to install activerecord, and to do so I thought it would  
> be a good
> idea to install rubygems to do the work for me. So I downloaded
> rubygems-0.9.2 from http://rubyforge.org/frs/? 
> group_id=126&release_id=9501,
> did "ruby setup.rb" as root. This seemed to start OK but then gave  
> some
> errors:
>
>     ...
>     setup.rb:18:15: Couldn't find File. Assuming it's a module

At this point, you should have stopped. Something is terribly wrong  
with your ruby installation. Rubygems has NOTHING to do with this.  
This has me worried.

> [root@localhost rubygems-0.9.2]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> CentOS release 4.4 (Final)
> [root@localhost rubygems-0.9.2]# ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i386-linux-gnu]

You need 1.8.2 at the very least. Newer is better.