From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2009-02-26T04:02:13+09:00
Subject: Re: error trying to install ruby gems 1.3.1

On Feb 25, 2009, at 10:32, 7stud -- wrote:
> Brian Candler wrote:
>> 7stud -- wrote:
>>> My gem questions usually go unanswered.  In my
>>> short experience with the gem system, it is a ponderously slow(bulk
>>> updating) broken piece of junk.
>>
>> It was: on a 512MB system, rubygems would happily eat up all  
>> available
>> memory and go deep into swap.
>>
>> However 1.3.x seems to have fixed that.
>
> ...but as you can see, installing 1.3.x is broken.  Sort of a  
> catch-22.

No, your ruby is missing Etc.  RubyGems' reporting of this fact is  
broken.