From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2011-10-04T08:40:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Error when installing gem.

Darryl Pierce wrote in post #1024793:
> [...]
>
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (OptionParser::InvalidOption)
>     invalid option: --without-qpid-dir=~/Programming/Qpid/builddir/src/
>
> What's the problem and what does it expect?

gem install <gemname> -- --with-opt-for-gem=...
                      ^^

Note the double slashes to separate options for RubyGems than the 
options you provide to the gem installation.

All this is detailed in the RubyGems inline help:

gem help install

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