From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2008-08-02T04:08:15+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems - update made a mess - help needed with Windows


On Jul 31, 2008, at 23:04 , Luis Lavena wrote:

> Ok, first it seems the application was not started by you, but you
> just checkout it, right? so we need to fix the rubygems stuff.
>
> 1) Download rubygems-1.2.0.zip file from RubyForge:
>
> http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126&release_id=23118
>
> 2) Extract the package and from the command prompt, inside the folder
> run:
>
> ruby setup.rb install
>
> That should overwrite the installed rubygems with this one.
>
> 3) Go to into your Ruby/bin folder (usually C:\Ruby\bin or C:\Program
> Files\Ruby\bin) and look for all the scripts named "gem", if you had
> 1.8.5, you should have:
>
> gem
> gem.bat
> gem.cmd
>
> Please remove the gem.cmd file to avoid conflicts.
>
> 4) RubyGems should be working now.

This is a really good fix-it list for windows users. Luis, can you add  
this to the README or a FAQ-WINDOWS or something?