Okay... finally had to rm -rf ~/.gem  I'm thinking somewhere along
the line a "sudo" got left off a gem install and instead of causing
a write error it just created a local set of gems transparently.

        -glenn

Glenn Little wrote:
> In trying to get postgres working under ruby2.2.2 (an issue for
> a separate email), I installed the ruby-pg gem:
> 
>  % sudo gem install ruby-pg
> 
> Then I read on this page:
> 
>  http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=21187
> 
> that "the gem for ruby-pg is named 'pg'".  Not sure what that really
> means, but okay, I did:
> 
>  % sudo gem install pg
> 
> Now, I cannot uninstall ruby-pg:
> 
>  % sudo gem uninstall ruby-pg
>  ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::InstallError)
>  Unknown gem ruby-pg >= 0
> 
> Same behavior if I uninstall pg first.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?  In this email, in particular, how to uninstall
> that gem so I can get a clean start?
> 
> Thanks much...
> 
>     -glenn
> 
> 

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