# .gemrc problem, installing Slave and Daemon on Railsmachine

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gemrc-problem-installing-slave-and-daemon-on-railsmachine/112597>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 21, 2007, 8:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gemrc-problem-installing-slave-and-daemon-on-railsmachine/112597 "2007-08-21T08:36:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 8:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gemrc-problem-installing-slave-and-daemon-on-railsmachine/112597/1 "2007-08-21T08:36:21Z")

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While trying to install gems on my Railsmachine (hosted) server. The  
“sudo gem install” command reported back “Killed” every time I tried  
to install the Slave or Daemon gems (As part of getting BackgroundRB  
rails plugin to work). With the --debug option on I got the following  
information:

/usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/config\_file.rb:51 - No such file or  
directory - /home/deploy/.gemrc

so I added /home/deploy/.gemrc with the following information:

gemhome: /home/deploy/.gem  
gempath:

- /home/deploy/.gem
- /user/lib/ruby/gems/1.8

But again “sudo gem install Slave --debug” ends into trouble:

Exception `LoadError' at /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom_require.rb:27 - no such file to load -- Win32API Exception `LoadError’ at /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/  
custom\_require.rb:34 - no such file to load – Win32API  
removing /tmp/open-uri3286.0…done  
Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
jremoving /tmp/open-uri3286.0…done  
Killed

Does anyone have a clue?

Greetings,

Wilco

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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 8:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gemrc-problem-installing-slave-and-daemon-on-railsmachine/112597/2 "2007-08-21T08:45:21Z")

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On Aug 20, 2007, at 23:35, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> While trying to install gems on my Railsmachine (hosted) server. The  
> “sudo gem install” command reported back “Killed” every time I tried  
> to install the Slave or Daemon gems (As part of getting BackgroundRB  
> rails plugin to work). With the --debug option on I got the following  
> information:
> 
> /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/config\_file.rb:51 - No such file or  
> directory - /home/deploy/.gemrc

–debug prints out every exception, even if caught. This exception  
was caught.

> Does anyone have a clue?

Likely you don’t have enough memory to do a bulk index update.

If you have a shared slice with limited RAM it is best if you use the  
vendor/ directory or gem unpack locally then rsync to install what  
you need.