# Installed RMagick and ImageMagick, now Chronic is given errors

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 5, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installed-rmagick-and-imagemagick-now-chronic-is-given-errors/139628 "2008-06-05T17:24:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![gorgeoussoul](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gorgeoussoul](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gorgeoussoul)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installed-rmagick-and-imagemagick-now-chronic-is-given-errors/139628/1 "2008-06-05T17:24:25Z")

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I’m stuck. I’m relatively new to Rails and haven’t had to  
troubleshoot “rails weirdness” before.

I’ve been using Chronic for a while now without any problems. But, I  
just installed ImageMagick, RMagick, and Gruff. One of those required  
me to run “gem update – system”. Since then, I’ve been getting this  
error:

MissingSourceFile (no such file to load – chronic)

and this error:

Gem::Exception in controller#action  
can’t activate rubyforge (\>= 1.0.0), already activated  
rubyforge-0.4.4]

I tried uninstalling and then reinstalling the Chronic gem, but there  
is no change.

Any tips on where to go from here?

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![gorgeoussoul](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gorgeoussoul](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gorgeoussoul)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installed-rmagick-and-imagemagick-now-chronic-is-given-errors/139628/2 "2008-06-05T17:29:45Z")

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On 5 Jun 2008, at 16:23, GorgeousSoul wrote:

> I’m stuck. I’m relatively new to Rails and haven’t had to  
> troubleshoot “rails weirdness” before.
> 
> I’ve been using Chronic for a while now without any problems. But, I  
> just installed ImageMagick, RMagick, and Gruff. One of those required  
> me to run “gem update – system”. Since then, I’ve been getting this  
> error:

Sounds like something is explicitly requiring a fixed version of a gem

Fred

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**Author:** ![gorgeoussoul](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gorgeoussoul](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gorgeoussoul)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installed-rmagick-and-imagemagick-now-chronic-is-given-errors/139628/3 "2008-06-05T17:31:32Z")

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On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 08:23 -0700, GorgeousSoul wrote:

> and this error:
> 
> Gem::Exception in controller#action  
> can’t activate rubyforge (\>= 1.0.0), already activated  
> rubyforge-0.4.4]
> 
> I tried uninstalling and then reinstalling the Chronic gem, but there  
> is no change.
> 
> Any tips on where to go from here?

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try ‘gem uninstall rubyforge’

and choose the 1.0.0 version as the one to remove

Craig