From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2008-08-05T23:28:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with 1.8.7 Binary under MS Windows

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 15:06, Victor Reyes <victor.reyes@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Since I could not find the "1-click" package for 1.8.7, I downloaded its
> binary.
> I proceeded to remove 1.8.6 and extracted 1.8.7 in its place.
> So I have a dir strcuture of:
>
> c:\ruby
>
> C:\>cd ruby
> C:\ruby>dir
>  Volume in drive C has no label.
>  Volume Serial Number is 289C-FD52
>  Directory of C:\ruby
> 08/05/2008  08:53 AM    <DIR>          .
> 08/05/2008  08:53 AM    <DIR>          ..
> 08/05/2008  08:52 AM    <DIR>          bin
> 08/05/2008  08:52 AM    <DIR>          doc
> 08/05/2008  08:52 AM    <DIR>          lib
> 08/05/2008  08:53 AM    <DIR>          man
> 06/02/2008  01:58 AM           649,528 MANIFEST
> 06/02/2008  01:51 AM             1,282 README.1st
> 08/05/2008  08:29 AM    <DIR>          Ruby-1.8.6 and much more     *(I
> actually moved 1.8.6 to this dir)
> *08/05/2008  08:53 AM    <DIR>          share
>               2 File(s)        650,810 bytes
>               9 Dir(s)  115,489,136,640 bytes free
> C:\ruby>
>
> *ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.7 (2008-05-31 patchlevel 0) [i386-mswin32]*
>
> However when I try to test it by invoking the simplest pgm of all, I get the
> following error:
>
> *ruby qt.rb
> ruby: no such file to load -- ubygems (LoadError)*
>
> *cat qt.rb
> puts "Hello World!"*
>
> Could anyone tell me what I did wrong here?
>
> BTW, I am trying 1.8.7 because I wanted to use the *delete* method: *
> a.delete("value")* and it looks like this is not found on 1.8.6.
>
> Thank you
>
> Victor

install rubygems. (download the tarball/zip, unpack, start setup.rb --
but check the docs)
or unset %RUBYOPT% (set RUBYOPT=)

Jano