From: hemant <gethemant@...>
Date: 2007-09-01T12:58:30+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems mysteriously broken (paths issue?)

On 9/1/07, Eeby <elektrophyte@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Just installed RubyGems 0.9.0 on Ubuntu 7.04. I ran gem install rails
> and it said that it worked successfully.
>
> But tried to run "rails mynewapp" and got "bash: rails: command not
> found".
>
> Ran...
>
> # gem list -l rails
>
> *** LOCAL GEMS ***
>
> rails (1.2.3)
>     Web-application framework with template engine, control-flow
> layer,
>     and ORM.
>
> So the rails gem was installed. I tried...
>
> # gem contents rails
> Unable to find gem 'rails' in default gem paths
>
> So gem list rails works, but gem contents rails doesn't work.
>
> So I checked what gem thinks its environment is...
>
> # gem environment
> Rubygems Environment:
>   - VERSION: 0.9.0 (0.9.0)
>   - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /var/lib/gems/1.8
>   - GEM PATH:
>      - /var/lib/gems/1.8
>   - REMOTE SOURCES:
>      - http://gems.rubyforge.org
>
> /var/lib/gems/1.8 actually does contain "bin/" "cache/" "doc/" "gems/"
> "source_cache" "specifications/". Within that, the gems/ dir does
> indeed contain dirs for all the gems I've just installed such as
> rails, actionmailer, mongrel, and several others.
>
> Any help to fix this would be greatly appreciated.
>

Please remove the rubygems package that you installed using apt-get,
its broken. Download the tgz file of rubygems from rubyforge.org and
install rubygems using that. Everything will be fine after that.