From: "jason.lapier@..." <jason.lapier@...>
Date: 2008-10-31T00:44:15+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems 1.3.1

On Oct 30, 1:46 am, Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb-use...@nasa.gov> wrote:
> Eric Hodel wrote:
> > = Announce: RubyGems Release 1.3.1
>
> Thank you!
>
> > NOTE:  RubyGems 1.1 and 1.2 have problems upgrading when there is no
> > rubygems-update installed.  You will need to follow the second set of  
> > update instructions if you see "Nothing to update".
>
> Or something like,
>
>   $ sudo gem update --system
>   Updating RubyGems
>   Updating rubygems-update
>   Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.3.1
>   ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NameError)
>       undefined local variable or method `remote_gemspecs'
>       for #<Gem::Commands::UpdateCommand:0x1208504>
>
> The second update method,
>
> >    $ gem install rubygems-update  (again, might need to be admin/root)
> >    $ update_rubygems              (... here too)
>
> worked just fine (but bypassing the first step since it was already done).


I had the same error on the update --system, but installing rubygems-
update and running that worked for me. I'm on Ubuntu 8.04.

When I tried doing a gem cleanup, my box chewed through it's 2GB of
system memory and started swapping hard. I remember this memory-eating
bug used to happen on gem update, but was cleared up in a previous
release.

- Jason L.