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From: Rajinder Yadav on 27 Dec 2009 00:18 Phillip Gawlowski wrote: > On 27.12.2009 05:55, Rajinder Yadav wrote: >> Rilindo Foster wrote: >>> You can try to add the path to your current gems: >>> >>> export PATH=/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin:$PATH >>> See: >> >> is there another location rubygems can be install? I did an ls and found >> the following entries. should there not be more stuff here bases on my >> gem list showing?? > > As many possibilities as there are Linux distributions. ;) > > Usually, it is "/[var|opt]/lib/ruby/1.8/gems/". The particulars depend > on your distribution. I've given up the battle and reinstalling rubygems ;) > -- > Phillip Gawlowski > > -- Kind Regards, Rajinder Yadav http://DevMentor.org Do Good! - Share Freely
From: Rajinder Yadav on 27 Dec 2009 02:35 Phillip Gawlowski wrote: > On 27.12.2009 05:50, Rajinder Yadav wrote: >> Phillip Gawlowski wrote: >>> On 27.12.2009 05:22, Rajinder Yadav wrote: >>> >>>> I already had gems installed? are you telling me I got to repeat the >>>> entire process to install gem and then all the gem packages? >>> >>> Apparently, if your compiled-from source Ruby cannot find "rubygems". ;) >>> >>> Most likely, installing RubyGems should be enough. >>> >>> How did you remove Ruby? Using apt-get? Which options? Or by other >>> means? >> >> sudo aptitude remove ruby > > Right, I'm a little foggy here (It's been a while since I last touched > any from of *NIX). > > However, it seems that you now have a rather curious state for your Ruby. > > For one, Ruby is split into several packages (ruby, irb, ruby-dev, > libruby, ri; off the top of my head), and a couple of Ruby packages > exit, too, most famously RubyGems. > > However, each distribution (more or less), tweaks their offered packages > to conform to the distribution's file system layout. > > These tweaks are not necessarily identical to what a build from source > provides. > > So, it seems that your Ruby install is in an inconsistent state, where > Ruby, and RubyGems don't "know" about each other, since they use > different directories. > > A solution would be to do a "sudo aptitude remove ruby*" to remove > anything the distro installed, re-do "sudo make install" in your Ruby > source directory, and then install RubyGems and your desired gems (it > might be enough to monitor the filesystem, and see which directories > "make install" and the RubyGems install create, and to copy your gems > into this new directory. > > Or: > > You remove compiled-Ruby with the hopefully existing "make uninstall", > and then reinstall Ruby from Ubuntu's repositories, and hope that fixes > everything (it should). > > Aside: A tool I found handy when installing from source is Checkinstall: > http://checkinstall.izto.org/ allowing to introduce software compiled > from source to a distribution's packet management system. :) > > -- > Phillip Gawlowski > > Phillip, thanks for helping out. A simple reinstall of rubygems and the gems is all that was needed to restore the state. (I was trying to avoid this being lazy). RI is happy again, gems are being found with no issue. -- Kind Regards, Rajinder Yadav http://DevMentor.org Do Good! - Share Freely
From: Walton Hoops on 27 Dec 2009 02:42 On 12/26/2009 9:22 PM, Rajinder Yadav wrote: > Phillip Gawlowski wrote: >> On 27.12.2009 05:12, Rajinder Yadav wrote: >>> I removed my older ruby package from my ubuntu, built ruby from source >>> successfully. added the sym link from ruby1.8 -> ruby in /usr/bin/ >>> >>> however from the IRB I'm getting errors it can't find my gems? how do I >>> fix this, I assume I need to define some environment variables? >> >> http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/3 >> >> You need to install RubyGems. >> >> -- >> Phillip Gawlowski >> >> > > I already had gems installed? are you telling me I got to repeat the > entire process to install gem and then all the gem packages? > > yadav(a)KubuntuX64:$ gem list > > *** LOCAL GEMS *** I am about 75% sure you have rubygems installed through Ubuntu. I bet if you do 'sudo apt-get remove rubygems' (I think that's right) you'll see what I mean. This Debian distro of rubygems won't work with the source distro of Ruby (at least not easily). You'll need to remove the one installed through apt and install from source as mentioned above.
From: Rick DeNatale on 27 Dec 2009 09:40
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I removed my older ruby package from my ubuntu, built ruby from source > successfully. added the sym link from ruby1.8 -> ruby in /usr/bin/ > > however from the IRB I'm getting errors it can't find my gems? how do I fix > this, I assume I need to define some environment variables? > > > irb(main):003:0> require 'rubygems' > LoadError: no such file to load -- rubygems > from (irb):3:in `require' > from (irb):3 > from :0 > irb(main):004:0> require 'grackle' > LoadError: no such file to load -- grackle > from (irb):4:in `require' > from (irb):4 > from :0 Despite some of the kind suggestions from others, the particular file rubygems.rb should be in .../lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ if Ruby and rubygems are both installed. Note that this is not the gem binary, but rather the file which allows your program to load gems. The ... stands in for an installation path which varies from system to system. But should be something like /usr or /usr/local on a Debian based system. Actually self installed stuff should be in /user/local IIRC so as not to collide with packaged stuff. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale |