Ruby hangs when trying to install RubyGems

Rails
1

I’ve just set up a minimal Gentoo install and emerged Ruby 1.8.5 from
portage. I then went to emerge rubygems, and found that it hangs.
Manually downloading the file and running ‘ruby setup.rb’ also hangs.
The following are the last few lines I get before nothing happens, and
my CPU sits at 100% (from Ruby):

Successfully built RubyGem
Name: sources
Version: 0.0.1
File: sources-0.0.1.gem

Any help would be great.

2

A compilation from source makes no difference, either. Is this some
sort of unique Gentoo issue?

3

I had the same problem both with emerging rubygems or directly running
setup.rb from rubygems-0.9.2.tgz
I fixed it by patching rubygems-0.9.2/lib/rubygems/packages.rb:

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< if @io.respond_to? :seek
< # avoid reading…
< @io.seek(size - entry.bytes_read, IO::SEEK_CUR)
< else

    #if @io.respond_to? :seek
    #  # avoid reading...
    #  @io.seek(size - entry.bytes_read, IO::SEEK_CUR)
    #else

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< end

    #end

With that patch you force the TarReader to actually read the file
rather than just seeking into it.
The bug was that by seeking, the bytes_read attribute of entry was
never updated.

Philippe