From: Alex Gutteridge <alexg@...>
Date: 2010-10-29T16:55:39+09:00
Subject: Re: rsruby install trouble

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 05:45:25 +0900, Guybrush Threepwood
<deadpool93@comcast.net> wrote:
> Okay, now I'm trying to install rubygems, but am getting a weird error 
> message for that. Do I have to pass it anything, or should it just be 
> ruby setup.rb in the directory where the files are?
> 
> (the error)
> 
> ./lib/rubygems.rb:723:in `set_paths': uninitialized constant Gem::Etc 
> (NameError)
>         from ./lib/rubygems.rb:719:in `each'
>         from ./lib/rubygems.rb:719:in `set_paths'
>         from ./lib/rubygems.rb:526:in `path'
>         from ./lib/rubygems/source_index.rb:66:in 
> `installed_spec_directories'
>         from ./lib/rubygems/source_index.rb:56:in `from_installed_gems'
>         from ./lib/rubygems.rb:736:in `source_index'
>         from ./lib/rubygems/gem_path_searcher.rb:86:in `init_gemspecs'
>         from ./lib/rubygems/gem_path_searcher.rb:21:in `initialize'
>         from ./lib/rubygems.rb:684:in `new'
>         from ./lib/rubygems.rb:684:in `searcher'
>         from ./lib/rubygems.rb:683:in `synchronize'
>         from ./lib/rubygems.rb:683:in `searcher'
>         from ./lib/rubygems/custom_require.rb:34:in `require'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/tmpdir.rb:12
>         from ./lib/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in 
> `gem_original_require'
>         from ./lib/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
>         from setup.rb:95

If you're on OSX you should already have rubygems (I think?). Your error
looks like it comes from having a <1.8.3 version of Ruby installed:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=22313&group_id=126&atid=575

-- 
Alex Gutteridge