Problem with gem, after upgrading to 1.3.1 on linux (ubuntu 8.04)

Ruby
1

Ruby doesn’t see my installed gems after upgrading to 1.3.1

Please help!!

~# ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i686-linux]

~# gem -v
1.3.1

~# gem env
RubyGems Environment:

  • RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.1
  • RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i686-linux]
  • INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  • RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/local/bin/ruby
  • EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/local/bin
  • RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    • ruby
    • x86-linux
  • GEM PATHS:
    • /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
    • /root/.gem/ruby/1.8
  • GEM CONFIGURATION:
    • :update_sources => trueTahks
    • :verbose => true
    • :benchmark => false
    • :backtrace => false
    • :bulk_threshold => 1000
  • REMOTE SOURCES:

~# gem list

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

net-mdns (0.4)
rubygems-update (1.3.1)

I tried to run this test file (test.rb):
#test.rb
require ‘rubygem’
require ‘net-mdns’

~#ruby test.rb
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
gem_original_require': no such file to load -- net-mdns (LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in require’
from test.rb:2

I don’t know what to do… I have built the ruby and gem from the source
but
I don’t know how to uninstall it… make file doesn’t have uninstall
option

Please help I really don’t how to solve this.

Thanks

2

Pablo Q. wrote:

~# gem env
- /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
~# gem list

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

net-mdns (0.4)
rubygems-update (1.3.1)

I tried to run this test file (test.rb):
#test.rb
require ‘rubygem’

TRY:
require ‘rubygems’

easy mistake to make - I’ve done it!

I don’t know how to uninstall it… make file doesn’t have uninstall option

Please help I really don’t how to solve this.

Thanks

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3

Sorry, I wrote wrong the mail, test.rb is fine (require ‘rubygems’)…
error
is on line 2

2009/1/1 Tom C. [email protected]

4

This appears to be the same problem I reported in another thread.

After updating to rubygems 1.3.1 all installed gems seem to have
disappeared.

As far as I can tell, the problem is the installation directory.

Look at the gem env output and notice this line:

- INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8

Now, if you have the same problem that I do, there should be NO gems in
this directory. All of your gems should be found in:

/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/

Thus, it seems that rubygems 1.3.1 somehow changes the installation
directory and looses track of where your gems really are.

You agree?
Is changing rubygem’s installation directory an easy thing to do?

Thanks!
Giuseppe

5

Based on this page: http://www.rubygems.org/read/chapter/3, I did:

$ export GEM_HOME=/var/lib/gems/1.8
$ gem env

and now rubygems sees all gems.
I’m not a linux guru, though, so I don’t know if this is the right way
to go. For one thing, I’m pretty sure that this environment variable
will be lost, should I need to reboot the machine.

–Giuseppe

6

Thank you very much, now I know that It was due to this specific gem, I
just
change to the old version of ruby (the one that come with synaptic in
Ubuntu) and I was able to see all my gems but I still having problems
with
this specific gem (net-mdns).

Does somebody knows why ‘net-mdns’ don’t work in linux (ubuntu 8.04)??

~# ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i486-linux]

~# gem env
RubyGems Environment:

  • RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.1
  • RUBY VERSION: 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i486-linux]
  • INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  • RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/ruby1.8
  • EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/bin
  • RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    • ruby
    • x86-linux
  • GEM PATHS:
    • /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
    • /root/.gem/ruby/1.8
  • GEM CONFIGURATION:
    • :update_sources => true
    • :verbose => true
    • :benchmark => false
    • :backtrace => false
    • :bulk_threshold => 1000
  • REMOTE SOURCES:

~# gem list

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

abstract (1.0.0)
actionmailer (2.1.0)
…
net-mdns (0.4)
net-scp (1.0.1)
net-sftp (2.0.1)
net-ssh (2.0.4)
net-ssh-gateway (1.0.0)
…
twitter (0.3.7)

~# irb
irb(main):001:0> RUBY_VERSION
=> “1.8.6”
irb(main):002:0> require ‘rubygems’
=> true
irb(main):003:0> require ‘twitter’
=> true
irb(main):004:0> require ‘net-mdns’
MissingSourceFile: no such file to load – net-mdns
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
gem_original_require' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in require’
from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:509:in
require' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:354:in new_constants_in’
from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:509:in
`require’
from (irb):4
irb(main):005:0>

Thank you

2009/1/2 Giuseppe B. [email protected]