From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2011-01-26T02:02:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with GEM configuration

On Jan 25, 1:17 pm, Michael Mcandrews <zor...@rcn.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've ben running Ruby and Gem for a few years without any problems until
> now, when this wierd thing poped up.  It's been a while since I ran GEM
> so I don't know what may have happened to produce the problem.  However,
> now, with most GEM commands I get the following response ...
>
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Errno::ENOENT)
>     No such file or directory - %UserProfile
>
> I'm running ...
>   Windows XP
>   Ruby v1.8.6
>   Gem v 1.3.6
>
> I do have an environment variable "UserProfile" and equates to a valid
> directory and it contains a ".gem" directory.  What does GEM want
> "%UserProfile" to be?  How can I fix this?  About the only GEM command
> that works is ..
>   gem list --local
>

can you try "gem env" ?

perhaps you also have a GEM_HOME or GEM_PATH variable setup, so try
this:

set GEM

And tell us the results. There could be a missing % in one of the
environment variables, specially HOME variable (which is used by Ruby
and RubyGems)

--
Luis Lavena