Patrick, Thanks! Someone else mentioned that, too. I had the students copy/paste the commands into a terminal window, and it worked like a charm! I was so intent trying to get rubygems replaced that I didn't think to replace all of ruby.
Joe On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Patrick Reagan <[email protected]> wrote: > RVM might be the best tool to manage a per-user Ruby install and the required > gem dependencies: > > http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/ > > I haven't used it on Linux, but I've been using it successfully on OSX for > the last 6+ months. > > Hope that helps. > p. > > On Aug 1, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Bothari wrote: > >> Group, >> >> I think I'm stumbling over an environment setting, but I can't see >> where it is. I'm trying to upgrade some Ubuntu 10 boxes that have >> rubygems installed via apt-get, and they are stuck on version 1.2. >> The gem list --remote comand doesn't work (cant remember the error >> now) but it's complaining about not being able to get to rubyforge,so >> I think the rubygems install is just too old. >> >> Naturally, I don't have root access on these boxes, so I'd like to try >> and install rubygems in the user directory. It's for a class >> (starting Monday) so it doesn't need to be a permanent solution. >> >> I've downloaded, installed via ruby setup.rb --prefix ~/rubygems137, >> but when I run ~/rubygems137/bin/gem --version, I get the old version. >> >> I've tried resetting the gem_home and gem_path environment variables, >> but it keeps running the old version. >> >> What else? >> Joe >> -- >> "There are only two industries that refer to their customers as >> ‘users’." - Edward Tufte >> _______________________________________________ >> Bdrg-members mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members > > -- > Patrick Reagan <[email protected]> > > > > > > -- "There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’." - Edward Tufte _______________________________________________ Bdrg-members mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members
