From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-10-02T03:47:16+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems 1.3.0

On Sep 30, 2008, at 13:25 PM, Paul Dowman wrote:
> 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.
>
> When you install the rubygems-update gem, make sure you install the
> version that matches your current version of rubygems. The following
> will do it:
>
> gem install rubygems-update -v `gem --version`
>
> Note that the quotes are backquotes (i.e. shift plus the tilde (~) key
> on a standard US keyboard).

No.

This will leave you with whatever version of RubyGems you have, and  
will not upgrade you to 1.3.0.