All,
My environment:
Windows XP
C:\eclipse\workspace>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]
C:\eclipse\workspace>gem environment
RubyGems Environment:
- VERSION: 0.9.4 (0.9.4)
- INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
- GEM PATH:
- c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
- REMOTE SOURCES:
- http://gems.rubyforge.org
If I attempt to install any Rubygem, including the system update, I get
an error informing me that a clearly absolute path is not absolute.
Here's an example:
C:\eclipse\workspace>gem update capistrano
Updating installed gems...
Attempting remote update of capistrano
Install required dependency highline? [Yn] Y
ERROR: While executing gem ... (ArgumentError)
install directory
#<Pathname:c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/highline-1.2.9>
not absolute
This appears to be due to the following code in installer.rb:
private
def expand_and_validate(directory)
directory = Pathname.new(directory).expand_path
unless directory.absolute?
raise ArgumentError, "install directory %p not absolute" % directory
end
directory.to_str
end
which depends on the Pathname library, which in turn assumes that any
directory that doesn't start with "/" is relative. See below:
C:\eclipse\workspace>irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'pathname'
=> true
irb(main):002:0>
Pathname.new("C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/highline-1.2.9").absolute?
=> false
How do I fix my installation so that I can continue to use gems?
Thanks,
Wes
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