From: matt@... (Matt Neuburg)
Date: 2010-02-14T13:00:19+09:00
Subject: Re: All attempts to install gems hang

Evan Dorn <public@idahoev.com> wrote:

> Here's what I've installed on this computer: 1) Fresh wipe of HD 2)
> Install Snow Leopard 3) Install Apple Developer tools / xcode 4) Install
> textmate and Path Finder 5) Install Ruby and Rubygems exactly as per
> hivelogic:

I'm sitting here running Snow Leopard (and TextMate and PathFinder and
lots of other goodies you mention in your post), so I notice that you're
installing a second Ruby on top of the existing Ruby that's part of Snow
Leopard, and wondering whether this might be somehow confusing things.

Similarly you've apparently installed a second version of "gem", in
/usr/local/bin, when the standard location on Snow Leoard is /usr/bin
(there is already a "gem" there).

Of course it does look like your PATH is set in such a way that all of
that shouldn't matter - your ruby and your gem are evidently
overshadowing the standard versions successfully.

But since you've clearly nothing whatever to do with your time (insert
appropriate smiley here), I'm wondering what bad thing would happen if
you clean-installed Snow Leopard and then did NOT install this second
ruby. I'm betting that then you'd be able to install gems just fine. (Of
course you might still need the developer tools installed, in order to
get gcc, if a gem had native code to compile.)

I'm just musing out loud so I won't be offended if you tell me no, you
absolutely must have this other version of Ruby. m.

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