# Gem questions/problems

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-questions-problems/89351>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 19, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-questions-problems/89351 "2007-03-19T20:23:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ghoti143](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/90db22/32.png) [@ghoti143](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ghoti143)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-questions-problems/89351/1 "2007-03-19T20:23:19Z")

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I installed gem on a few machines (identical machines). When I do gem  
list --remote on some of them, they dump a big list of packages. When I  
do the same command on one of them, it returns nothing:

[root@devbox1 1.8]# gem list --remote

\*\*\* REMOTE GEMS \*\*\*  
[root@devbox1 1.8]#

Anyone have an idea what’s going on? I tried reinstalling it a few times  
already.

Also, when I do a gem list --remote rails, I dont see a version 1.2.3 on  
there… nor do I see a rake 0.7.2. Could these packages just be too new  
to be in a gem repo or is there some sort of list update that I need to  
do?

Thanks!

(ruby noob here)

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**Author:** ![ghoti143](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/90db22/32.png) [@ghoti143](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ghoti143)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-questions-problems/89351/2 "2007-03-19T21:48:19Z")

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On Mar 19, 3:23 pm, Mike H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> to be in a gem repo or is there some sort of list update that I need to  
> do?

What happens when you just try to ‘gem install’ something? Does it  
complain about sources? I remember having trouble with an older  
version of rubygems where the installer wouldn’t install the sources  
gem. But I don’t often use list --remote so I’m not sure if it’s the  
same issue.  
-Mat

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**Author:** ![ghoti143](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/90db22/32.png) [@ghoti143](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ghoti143)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-questions-problems/89351/3 "2007-03-19T21:55:38Z")

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Hey,

I downloaded the gem for rake and it installed just fine using gem  
install /path/to/rake-0.7.2.gem

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**Author:** ![ghoti143](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/90db22/32.png) [@ghoti143](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ghoti143)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-questions-problems/89351/4 "2007-03-19T21:57:36Z")

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"What happens when you just try to ‘gem install’ something? "

if the gem isnt downloaded and i try this, yes it does complain:

gem install mongrel  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::GemNotFoundException)  
Could not find mongrel (\> 0) in any repository

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**Author:** ![ghoti143](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/90db22/32.png) [@ghoti143](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ghoti143)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-questions-problems/89351/5 "2007-03-20T01:54:32Z")

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On Mar 19, 2007, at 12:23, Mike H. wrote:

> Anyone have an idea what’s going on? I tried reinstalling it a few
> 
> Thanks!

What does ‘gem sources’ say?

What version of rubygems?