Thanks for the info on gem-prelude. I already suspected that 1.4 might have an issue and so I also tried a manual install of GEM 1.36 but I had the exact same issue. So, I doubt that this is an issue only concerning 1.4 .... Any further ideas?
-jon Frederick Cheung wrote in post #971797: > On Jan 1, 12:00am, "Jon W." <[email protected]> wrote: >> I get a error using Ubuntu 10.10 with Ruby 1.9.2p136 and trying to >> manually install the GEM package. I am thrown for a loop on this one. >> What is wrong? >> > Well ruby 1.9 comes with a version of rubygems builtin and the docs > for rubygems 1.4 say "NOTE: Ruby 1.9 ships with rubygems and contains > a very buggy "gem-prelude". It is a gem loading system that can > interfere with updating rubygems itself. We do NOT recommend you > update to rubygems 1.4 if you're running ruby 1.9.x until we get that > sorted out in a future ruby release" > > Fred -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.

