Hi Glenn, Yes, using the ~/.gems directory if you forget sudo is a new "feature" for Rubygems in the last few releases. Seem like it often causes people trouble.
Rob On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:36, Glenn Little <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
