From: matt@... (matt neuburg)
Date: 2009-06-02T09:26:30+09:00
Subject: Re: My rubygems is completely broken (EOFErrors)

Doug McBride <doug.mcbride@gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's my environment followed by what I'm seeing.  I dug into the
> code and found out that the "bad URI" it's complaining about is nil,
> which is indeed pretty bad for a URI.  I've searched for an answer in
> vain.  I've reinstalled rubygems by running setup.rb from the latest
> rubygems release.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> 
> [dougmcbride@shiny /d/rubygems-1.3.4] sudo gem env

You do not need sudo for this.

> RubyGems Environment:
>   - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.4
>   - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [universal-
> darwin9.0]
>   - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8
>   - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/
> Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby
>   - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/bin
>   - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
>     - ruby
>     - universal-darwin-9
>   - GEM PATHS:
>      - /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8
>      - /Users/dougmcbride/.gem/ruby/1.8
>      - /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/
> ruby/gems/1.8
>   - GEM CONFIGURATION:
>      - :update_sources => true
>      - :verbose => true
>      - :benchmark => false
>      - :backtrace => false
>      - :bulk_threshold => 1000
>      - :sources => ["http://gems.rubyforge.org/"]
>   - REMOTE SOURCES:
>      - http://gems.rubyforge.org/

Looks pretty good. You might get a slightly more recent ruby by updating
Leopard, but that shouldn't matter very much. Saying "sudo gem update
--system" *should* have been sufficient to update rubygems. 

> [dougmcbride@shiny /d/rubygems-1.3.4] sudo gem --debug install ruby-
> debug
...
> Exception `EOFError' at /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/
> Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:133 - end of file
> reached

Just checking - (1) Have you installed Xcode? (2) Are you connected to
the Internet? Sorry nothing else comes to mind right off the bat; I
couldn't reproduce the problem (installing ruby-debug worked find for
me). m.

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