From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2009-04-01T01:20:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubygems Problems



On Mar 31, 8:57 am, Dominic Sisneros <dsisn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> the update to mojombo-grit is the problem.  Here is Aslax Hellesoy response
> to my inquiry on the rubygems mailing list
>
> 2009/3/31 Dominic Sisneros <dsisn...@gmail.com>
>
> > I did a gem cleanup and since then I have been getting the following error
> > whenever I try to use a gem
>
> I had the same problem yesterday, when I upgraded all my gems. It turns out,
> this error occurs if you have one broken gem.

I've tried to duplicate this but I can't. I installed grit 1.0.0, then
grit 1.1.0, then ran "gem clean", then fired up irb and loaded a gem.
I didn't have any problems.

I'm curious in what way the gem is broken. The require_paths appears
to just be set to 'lib', which is fine.

> My solution: Add a puts statement inside gem_path_searcher.rb to find out
> what gem is broken. Then uninstall it. (For me it was the latest
> mojombo-grit).
>
> And here is the result of the puts
>
> #<Gem::Specification name=mofo version=0.2.16>
> #<Gem::Specification name=mojombo-grit version=1.1.0>
> load error: C:/Documents and Settings/dominic e sisneros/.irbrc

This is interesting, and might be a clue as to the real problem. Could
spaces in the path name be an issue? I'm not sure. What does
your .irbc file look like? Also, do you have any non-ascii characters
in the path to the .irbc file?

> NoMethodError: undefined method `join' for nil:NilClass

Looks like spec.require_paths is returning nil, which is very odd.
Like I said, I can't duplicate this, and I'm not sure how that could
happen.

Regards,

Dan