# Gem install weirdness **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [September 17, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-install-weirdness/148864 "2008-09-17T20:49:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **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:** [September 17, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-install-weirdness/148864/1 "2008-09-17T20:49:25Z")
For some reason gem is installing v 0.9.0 by default [0.12.0 is the latest] for eventmachine. Is this expected? Thanks! -=R ~ sudo /usr/bin/gem install eventmachine Building native extensions. This could take a while… Successfully installed eventmachine-0.9.0 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for eventmachine-0.9.0… Installing RDoc documentation for eventmachine-0.9.0… ~ /usr/bin/gem list -b eventmachine \*\*\* LOCAL GEMS \*\*\* eventmachine (0.9.0) \*\*\* REMOTE GEMS \*\*\* eventmachine (0.12.0) ~ sudo /usr/bin/gem update eventmachine Updating installed gems Updating eventmachine Building native extensions. This could take a while… Successfully installed eventmachine-0.9.0 Gems updated: eventmachine