# Gem install weirdness **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 13, 2008, 4:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-install-weirdness/131774 "2008-03-13T04:09:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rogerdpack)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 4:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-install-weirdness/131774/1 "2008-03-13T04:09:19Z")
Just curious if anybody else has had this happen to them: I installed ruby from source, then rubygems from source (1.0.1) onto that. Then I would expect gems to install things without any problems–it’s a fresh install. However, this occurs. [Wed Mar 12 20:42:38 ~/Downloads/rubygems-1.0.1]$ ~/ppc\_local/bin/gem install rails -v 1.2.3 Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) Successfully installed rake-0.8.1 Successfully installed activesupport-1.4.2 Successfully installed activerecord-1.15.3 Successfully installed actionpack-1.13.3 Successfully installed actionmailer-1.3.3 Successfully installed actionwebservice-1.2.3 Successfully installed rails-1.2.3 7 gems installed Installing ri documentation for rake-0.8.1… RDoc failure in lib/rake.rb at or around line 961 column 3 Before reporting this, could you check that the file you’re documenting compiles cleanly–RDoc is not a full Ruby parser, and gets confused easily if fed invalid programs. The internal error was: ERROR: While executing gem … (NoMethodError) undefined method `debug?' for false:FalseClass [Wed Mar 12 20:48:00 ~/Downloads/rubygems-1.0.1]$ ~/ppc_local/bin/gem install rails -v 1.2.3 Successfully installed rails-1.2.3 1 gem installed [Wed Mar 12 20:52:37 ~/Downloads/rubygems-1.0.1]$ ~/ppc_local/bin/gem install ruby-hmac ruby-debug rcov rspec money mini_magick mechanize json hpricot hoe ferret fastercsv ezcrypto mongrel acts_as_ferret Successfully installed rubyforge-0.4.5 Successfully installed hoe-1.5.1 Successfully installed ruby-hmac-0.3.1 Building native extensions. This could take a while... Successfully installed ruby-debug-base-0.10.0 Successfully installed ruby-debug-0.10.0 Building native extensions. This could take a while... Successfully installed rcov-0.8.1.2.0 ERROR: While executing gem ... (NoMethodError) undefined method `size’ for false:FalseClass When I re-run the gem install it always works the second time. Ahh! False is taking over everywhere! (tongue in cheek). Take care. -R ---
**Author:** ![rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rogerdpack)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-install-weirdness/131774/2 "2008-03-13T04:24:11Z")
Roger P. wrote: [snip] > When I re-run the gem install it always works the second time. Ahh! > False is taking over everywhere! > (tongue in cheek). $ gem install weirdness Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) ERROR: could not find weirdness locally or in a repository tongue also in cheek 🙂