From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-09-30T05:51:47+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems 1.3.0

On Sep 29, 2008, at 08:24 AM, Kevin Williams wrote:
> Vassilis Rizopoulos wrote:
>> Eric Hodel wrote:
>>> Note!  Some versions of RubyGems have a bug that will prevent
>>> automatic updates.  If RubyGems says it has nothing to update, run:
>>>
>>>  $ gem install rubygems-update
>>>  $ update_rubygems
>> Yep. Doing sudo gem update on a MacOS X 10.5.5/Ruby 1.8.6/Gem 1.2.0
>> installation produced an error:
>>
>> Updating rubygems-update
>> Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.3.0
>> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NameError)
>>    undefined local variable or method `remote_gemspecs' for
>> #<Gem::Commands::UpdateCommand:0x52a3b4>
>>
>
> FYI - I have this error on every Ruby install I've got: Mac, Windows,
> Linux. All are Gems 1.2.0, but some are ruby 1.9, some are 1.8.7, some
> are 1.8.6, and some are JRuby.

Perhaps there are more bugs in 1.2 than I knew about.  The above  
procedure should get you up and running with 1.3.