From: Greg Chambers Date: 2010-02-05T22:50:19+09:00 Subject: Re: Problems with RubyGems on a Debian machine Luis Lavena wrote: > On Feb 5, 9:38�am, Greg Chambers wrote: >> � � � � actionpack requires rack (~> 1.0.0, runtime) >> > > This issue was discovered and discussed here: > > http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rubygems-developers/2010-January/005141.html > > The issue is that there are components that define runtime and > development time dependencies. RubyGems up to version 1.3.5 was not > capable of resolve that recursive issue. > >> Again, not sure if this is a Rails specific issue I should just move the >> to Ruby on Rails forum/mailing list but since this seems to be an error >> with RubyGems and not Rails, I thought it would be appropriate to post >> here. �Again, any help would be very much appreciated. > > In the mean time, you can manually install rack and then proceed with > the normal gem installation. > > The fix will be part of next RubyGems release. Well my problem is mostly that when I do install Rack, it still can't see it in the dependencies and so cannot proceed to install Rails. Ralf Mueller wrote: > Greg Chambers wrote: >> still complains that I do not have rack installed or it is not a new >> enough of a version. A friend of mine mentioned something about a file >> the RubyGems uses to handle dependencies that can get messed up if >> something goes wrong during an installation but I don't know anything >> about that. Can anyone help? >> > Do you use debian's rubygems package? Yes I did use debian's rubygems package, specifically whichever one is hosted on the Rochester Institute of Technology mirror. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.