From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2009-03-28T07:08:33+09:00
Subject: Re: I just can't get rubygems to work. Can anyone help?

Todd Benson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:48 PM, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
>>>>
>>
>> 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.


Ok.  I did

$ rm -r ~/.gem

so that rm would ask me to confirm the files it was going to delete. 
After awhile, I did a ctrl+C to stop the command.  Then I did

$ rm -rf ~/.gem

which deleted the .gem directory and all the files and directories 
beneath the .gem directory.  Then I did:

$ gem env
RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.1
  - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i686-darwin8.11.1]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/local/bin/ruby
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/local/bin
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86-darwin-8
  - GEM PATHS:
     - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
     - /Users/me/.gem/ruby/1.8
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :benchmark => false
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - http://gems.rubyforge.org/


Unfortunately, ~/.gem is still listed as a gem path--I suspected it 
would be.

Then I dragged the gem wxruby-2.0.0-universal-darwin-9.gem onto my 
Desktop then I did:

$ cd ~/Desktop

$ sudo gem install wxruby-2.0.0-universal-darwin-9.gem

No error messages.

$ gem list --local
*** LOCAL GEMS ***

fastercsv (1.2.3)
hoe (1.5.0)
hpricot (0.6)
libxml-ruby (0.5.2.0)
mechanize (0.7.0)
rake (0.8.1)
rubyforge (0.4.4)
rubygems-update (1.0.1)
wxruby (2.0.0)

There's the wxruby gem.  Then I tried running a simple wxruby program 
with the following lines at the top:

require "rubygems"
require "wx"

and it worked.  Miracle.

$ which ruby
/usr/local/bin/ruby

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i686-darwin8.11.1]

So I guess I'm setup--finally.  I hope having two gem paths doesn't come 
back and bite me.  Thanks everyone.
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