From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2009-03-28T06:03:43+09:00
Subject: Re: I just can't get rubygems to work. Can anyone help?

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:48 PM, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:
> lasitha wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:32 PM, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>> My problems started with a wxruby gem, but the whole gem system on my
>>> mac is now one big cluster#$#$!.
>>> [...]
>>> Next, I decided to upgrade to ruby 1.8.6, and download the full rubygems
>>> 1.3.1 and install it locally hoping that all my problems would be
>>> solved. �No such luck. �I originally posted about the problems I am
>>> having in the wxruby forum here:
>>>
>>> http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/182480#new
>>>
>>
>> Hi, you may find this thread helpful:
>> http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/180436
>>
>> In your original thread, Mario suggested cleanuping up anything
>> accidentally installed in /Users/me/.gem
>> Did that not help?
>>
>
> Well, Mario said that would "probably" work, so I thought I would see if
> anyone could confirm that or not.  The thread you linked to says to use
> rm -rf, but I'm not sure what path/file I should list, and I checked the
> man pages on rm, and that sounds a bit dangerous.  If I do:
>
> $ rm -rf  /Users/me/.gem
>
> will that delete /Users/me and /Users ?  Or will it only delete a
> directory if it is empty?

On my system, no.  Do a test...

mkdir temp
cd temp
mkdir .gem
cd .gem
touch a b
cd ../..
rm -rf temp/.gem

ls temp #nothing, but temp is still there.

hth,
Todd