From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2009-07-22T11:19:42+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyGems 1.3.5

On Jul 21, 2009, at 18:39, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Eric Hodel wrote:
>> If you have an older version of RubyGems installed, then you can  
>> still
>> do it in two steps:
>>  $ gem install rubygems-update  # again, might need to be admin/root
>>  $ update_rubygems              # ... here too
>
> No luck on WinXP:
>
> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
>
> E:\>gem -v
> 1.2.0
>
> E:\>gem install rubygems-update
> Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.3.5
> E:\>update_rubygems
> e:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:578:in  
> `report_activate_error': Could not find RubyGem session (>= 0)  
> (Gem::LoadError)
>        from e:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:134:in  
> `activate'
>        from e:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:158:in  
> `activate'
>        from e:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:157:in `each'
>        from e:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:157:in  
> `activate'
>        from e:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:49:in `gem'
>        from e:/ruby/bin/update_rubygems:18
>
> E:\vjoel>gem -v
> 1.2.0

Ah, you probably got bitten by the development dependencies :/

>> If you don't have any RubyGems install, there is still the pre-gem  
>> approach to
>> getting software, doing it manually:
>
> Will try that.

It should work.