From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-08-02T19:35:42+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems - update made a mess - help needed with Windows

On Aug 1, 9:08 pm, Ryan Davis <ryand-r...@zenspider.com> wrote:
> 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?

I will! :-)

I should blog more often... but you know, life always is in the way :-
P

Regards,
--
Luis Lavena