From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2009-03-29T04:16:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with Rubygems


On Feb 11, 2008, at 5:53 PM, hemant wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Ken Bloom <kbloom@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:34:10 -0500, Ali Panick wrote:
>>
>>> hemant wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am facing some issues with Rubygems on my ubuntu gutsy machine,  
>>>> where
>>>> Ruby 1.8.6 p111 is compiled and installed with:
>>>>
>>>> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
>>>>
>>>> ruby executable is not symlinked and I have /usr/local/bin in path.
>>>>
>>>> Recently I started to notice that, gem executables while installing
>>>> gems aren't getting created anywhere in path. I thought, it could  
>>>> be a
>>>> rubygems version issue and I ran:
>>>>
>>>> sudo gem update --system
>>>>
>>>> which seems to have updated to rubygems version 1.0.1, and yet  
>>>> when i
>>>> run:
>>>>
>>>> gem --version
>>>> 0.9.5
>>>>
>>>> So definitely something fishy going on here!
>>>>
>>> this is a simple and maybe stupid reply. I encountered the same  
>>> problem
>>> yesterday installing rubygems on my vps.
>>>
>>> I logged out and problem was fixed.
>>
>> If logging out fixed it, the problem probably wasn't fixed. What  
>> probably
>> happened was that when you updated with gem update --system, it  
>> installed
>> rubygems 1.0.1 into a different location. Since your shell (probably
>> bash) had hashed the location of rubygems so it wouldn't have to go
>> searching, it continued to use the old binary until you logged out  
>> and
>> logged back in. Run
>> $ whereis gem
>> make sure you don't have extra copies of rubygems hanging around
>> somewhere, and clean up the mess if you do.
>>
>
> Well for me, logging out doesn't resolve the problem and the problem
> persists. I don't have any rubygems installation hanging around. I do
> have Ruby1.9 compiled and installed, but its not in path and I
> generally use aliases ruby2 and gem2 to run my programs with Ruby1.9.
>


Rubygems updating is somewhat broken for old versions (and 0.9.5 is  
reaaaaally old).

Another upgrade path is to install the "rubygems-update" gem (over  
internet or from a gem file) and then run "update_rubygems".

Regards,
Florian

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