From: Benjohn Barnes <benjohn@...>
Date: 2007-12-10T15:16:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Gem trouble


On 9 Dec 2007, at 21:45, Benjohn Barnes wrote:

> I've been trying to use gems to instal rucola, and things aren't  
> going too well.
*snip*
> Can anyone adviseon getting everything working smoothly again? My  
> apologies if I have left out critical and obvious diagnostic  
> material. I've just done a disk verify, and that's also come up  
> clean (not sure how thorough the Mac "Disk Utility" is).

One useful thing - this seems to happen for other gems too:

> benjohn # sudo gem instal sqlite
> Password:
> Updating metadata for 9 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org
> .........
> complete
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (TypeError)
>     cannot convert nil into Array
> benjohn #

or

> benjohn # sudo gem instal nitro -V
> Installing gem facets-1.4.5
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (TypeError)
>     cannot convert nil into Array
> benjohn #

Thanks,
	Benjohn