From: Ryan Davis Date: 2009-08-30T19:02:46+09:00 Subject: Re: Having problems with Gem version on Snow Leopard On Aug 29, 2009, at 18:46 , Rick DeNatale wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Ryan Davis > wrote: >> >> On Aug 29, 2009, at 16:01 , Rick DeNatale wrote: >> >>> So, the migration to Snow Leopard has gone well, except that it's >>> totally bollixed up my ruby/rails development environment. >>> >>> It looks like Snow Leopard shipped with gem version 1.2.0 is this >>> right? >>> >>> $ which gem >>> /usr/bin/gem >>> $ gem --version >>> 1.2.0 >> >> huh... I get: >> >>> 501 % gem --version >>> 1.3.5 >>> 502 % which gem >>> /usr/bin/gem >>> 503 % ll /usr/bin/gem >>> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 71 Aug 28 16:05 /usr/bin/gem@ -> >>> ../../System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/ >>> bin/gem >> >> So I have no idea why you're back at 1.2.0. :/ >> >> Can you make sure you don't have multiple ruby's installed on your >> machine? >> Also, if you're really back at 1.2.0, then you NEED to install via >> tarball. >> This is a known and published bug. You're also doing several steps >> w/o sudo. > > I've gone back an punted and installed ruby and gems from source. > > I should have done the usual bypass surgery to begin with. It would have been nice to have figured it out. I haven't (ever) done any of "the usual bypass surgery" so I have no means to reproduce the issue.