Bugs item #27705, was opened at 2010-01-19 15:52
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Category: RubyGems installer (setup.rb)
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Rejected
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Forrest Aldrich (forrie)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: Gem installer places a mis-named *.rb file in /usr/local/lib
Initial Comment:
I have been having some trouble installing rubygems on a new system. The
following error I encountered:
# gem
/usr/local/bin/gem:8:in `require': no such file to load -- rubygems (LoadError)
from /usr/local/bin/gem:8
After looking around, I found this under /usr/local/lib:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29096 Jan 19 18:32 rubygems.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 268 Jan 19 18:32 ubygems.rb
the second file should not be there and I have no idea how was created.
Removing the obviously misnamed-file solved the problem.
The command I used to install:
ruby setup.rb --prefix=/usr/local
This applies to the latest version of rubygems-1.3.5 on RHEL 5.4.
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>Comment By: Ryan Davis (zenspider)
Date: 2010-01-19 20:18
Message:
The file isn't misnamed and it was not the cause of your problems.
It is there so you can use the '-r' flag like so:
% ruby -rubygems blah.rb
instead of:
% ruby -rrubygems blah.rb
(which you can still do, obviously).
(It would have been obvious had you read the file)
Further, you shouldn't be specifying --prefix to setup.rb. I think this is your
real problem. You shouldn't have ruby files under /usr/local/lib. You should
have them under /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8 or some-such. Don't specify
anything and let ruby figure out where the files should go. You should remove
all the .rb files installed under /usr/local/lib.
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