From: Jim Morris <ml@...4net.com>
Date: 2007-12-21T07:00:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyGems 1.0.0

Jim Morris wrote:
> Seems to have somethign to do with having to sudo gem update, now if I 
> runit with
> 
>  > sudo gem list
> 
> it works which I didn't have to do before.
> 
> I'll investigate further.
> 
> Jim Morris wrote:
>> After trying to install both from the source and from gem update --system
>> I get
>>
>> /usr/bin/gem:23: uninitialized constant Gem::GemRunner (NameError)
>>
>> when I try to run it.
>>
>> I am using ruby 1.8.6 on a Ubuntu system.
>>
>> Thanks
>>

Ok this has something to do with the way Ubuntu installs ruby (surprise surprise!)

The work around for me was to nuke the /usr/lib/ruby directory by renaming it ruby.old

Install ruby from the source into /usr/local/ruby

copy all my gems from /usr/lib/ruby.old/gems to /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems

also nuke /usr/bin/gem* and install gem into /usr/local/bin

Seems to have fixed it, what a mess!!


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Jim Morris, http://blog.wolfman.com