From: Kenosis <kenosis@...>
Date: 2007-02-24T06:00:11+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygems and CentOS 4.4

On Feb 23, 10:59 am, Ryan Davis <ryand-r...@zenspider.com> wrote:
> 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 fromhttp://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.

I would upgrade to a more recent version of Ruby. I had similar
problems on CentOS 4 and all were resolved when I simply build my own
ruby from source and no older than 1.8.4.

Ken