From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2009-02-26T09:09:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Gems 1.3.1 and sources


On Feb 25, 2009, at 8:41 PM, Eric Hodel wrote:

> On Feb 15, 2009, at 09:07, Feng Shui wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I tried to install Rails today so I got Ruby 1.8.7 and gem 1.3.1 as
>> sources. Ruby get installed without problems and also gems worked  
>> fine
>> with `ruby setub.rb`.
>> When I now tried to install Rails via `gem install rails` gem  
>> complained
>> about the missing gem sources. I hoped `gem install sources` will  
>> do the
>> trick, but now gem still insists on "0.0.1 not > 0.0.1" (see  
>> attachment)
>> We'll, he's right ...
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks, Fengi
>>
>> Attachments:
>> http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/3300/RubyGems.txt
>
> If you run with --debug every exception encountered is printed even  
> if it's rescued.  This particular exception is rescued.
>

This seems to be more then an isolated problem. We have at least two  
reports of it at the german ruby boards.

The interesting part seems to be "marshal data to short".

Regards,
Florian

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