# Please help with new Ruby install (my gems are missing!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 24, 2010, 9:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-with-new-ruby-install-my-gems-are-missing/184052 "2010-02-24T09:08:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rezilient](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@rezilient](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rezilient)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 9:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-with-new-ruby-install-my-gems-are-missing/184052/1 "2010-02-24T09:08:20Z")
Hello. I am trying to get Ruby installed on our CentOS 5.2 (x64) server for a specific Ruby application (clockingIT). I followed the steps here: > **[GitHub - ari/clockingit: This repository has moved to...](https://github.com/ari/clockingit)** > > This repository has moved to http://github.com/ari/jobsworth - GitHub - ari/clockingit: This repository has moved to http://github.com/ari/jobsworth I made sure that all Ruby related packages are installed, here are the versions according to RPM. But on Step 3 I am unable to “gem install passenger”, it just says ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::GemNotFoundException) Could not find passenger (\> 0) in any repository So I tried installing Phusion Passenger from source, but it says I am missing Rake and Rack and Fastthread. So I tried installing those, same problem… gem install rake Could not find rake (\> 0) in any repository gem install rack Could not find rack (\> 0) in any repository gem install fastthread Could not find fastthread (\> 0) in any repository When I checked the “gem env” it says: RubyGems Environment: - VERSION: 0.9.4 (0.9.4) - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 - GEM PATH: - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 - REMOTE SOURCES: - [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) I read somewhere about deleting the source\_cache and doing “gem update” so I tried that, but no luck. Any ideas? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![rezilient](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@rezilient](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rezilient)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 10:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-with-new-ruby-install-my-gems-are-missing/184052/2 "2010-02-24T22:13:37Z")
Hi, Sorry if I go too much to the basics but what is the output of “gem sources”? That will tell you the repositories you have defined to look for gems. For example rake is in github (based on a quick search in google). Does adding github help? Use “gem sources -a [http://gems.github.com](http://gems.github.com)” to add the repository. Add that if you don’t have it and try to get the gem/s again. Cheers. ---
**Author:** ![rezilient](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@rezilient](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rezilient)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-with-new-ruby-install-my-gems-are-missing/184052/3 "2010-02-24T22:15:57Z")
Your gems environment indicates that you only have [gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) as a repository. Not all the gems are found there so you need to add the right locations. Adding github might solve your problems… ---
**Author:** ![rezilient](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@rezilient](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rezilient)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 7:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-with-new-ruby-install-my-gems-are-missing/184052/4 "2010-02-25T07:29:56Z")
Finally got it working, had to upgrade to Ruby 1.8.6 for the Gem update to run successfully (it was saying I’m on 1.8.5, expecting 1.8.6). So I had to build Ruby from source for CentOS 5.2 x64. Also the 2nd half of this script to install Gem 1.3.5 was useful. [http://github.com/albertsj1/Misc-Scripts/raw/master/install\_gems.sh](http://github.com/albertsj1/Misc-Scripts/raw/master/install_gems.sh) Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![rezilient](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@rezilient](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rezilient)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-with-new-ruby-install-my-gems-are-missing/184052/5 "2010-02-24T23:20:42Z")
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:29 PM, rezilient [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::GemNotFoundException) > Could not find passenger (\> 0) in any repository > When I checked the “gem env” it says: > > RubyGems Environment: > > - VERSION: 0.9.4 (0.9.4) Your version of gem is ancient – current version is 1.3.6. Try `gem update --system` and see if that brings you current. Then you shouldn’t have any trouble installing those other gems.