From: unbewusst.sein@... (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Une_B=E9vue?=)
Date: 2011-05-28T00:00:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Gem::RemoteSourceException

Luis Lavena <luislavena@gmail.com> wrote:

First; thanks a lot for your clear answer !

> Please check the sources you have defined in RubyGems:
> 
> gem sources --list
> 
> It needs to contain http://rubygems.org


How do I add it ?

> If http://gems.rubyforge.org is present, please remove it with "gem
> sources --delete URL" command

it is the sole I had :

$ gem sources --list
*** CURRENT SOURCES ***

http://gems.rubyforge.org/


But I'm unable to delete it :

$ sudo gem sources --delete http://gems.rubyforge.org/
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (OptionParser::InvalidOption)
    invalid option: --delete


> > also installing rubygems-1.7.2 or 1.8.4, by sudo ruby setup.rb; got
> > errors...
> >
> 
> You're using an old version of Ruby (1.8.6) and newer versions of
> RubyGems do not support it, so either the gem installation or the
> manual installation are going to fail.
> 
> The latest version that did support was 1.3.6


my actual gem version is 1.2.0
then do you recommand installing 1.3.6 ?