From: Serguei Cambour Date: 2009-12-05T00:22:41+09:00 Subject: gems installation - invalid gem format No matter on which OS you are, - XP Family, XP Pro or Ubuntu 9.10. No matter if you have firewall 'hyper-sensitive' or proxy. When trying to do gem update --system or even when trying to install a new gem like 'gem install [gem_name] I always got the below error: ------------------------------------------------------ serge@serge-laptop:~$ sudo gem install heroku ERROR: Error installing heroku: invalid gem format for /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/heroku-1.4.gem serge@serge-laptop:~$ ruby -v ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i486-linux] serge@serge-laptop:~$ gem -v 1.3.5 I always get the above error of '...invalid gem format..'. Any idea how to resolve that? Something goes wrong in rubygems commits/dependencies?Thank you. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.