# RubyGems 1.0.0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [December 20, 2007, 9:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748 "2007-12-20T09:33:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 9:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748/1 "2007-12-20T09:33:28Z")
Release 1.0.0 fixes several bugs. Major New Features Include: - RubyGems warns about various problems with gemspecs during gem building - More-consistent versioning for the RubyGems software Other Changes Include: - Fixed various bugs and problems with installing gems on Windows - Fixed using `gem server` for installing gems - Various operations are even more verbose with --verbose - Built gems are now backwards compatible with 0.9.4 - Improved detection of RUBYOPT loading rubygems - `ruby setup.rb` now has a --help option - Gem::Specification#bindir is now respected on installation - Executable stubs can now be installed to match ruby’s name, so if ruby is installed as ‘ruby18’, foo\_exec will be installed as ‘foo\_exec18’ - `gem unpack` can now unpack into a specific directory with --target - OpenSSL is no longer required by default Deprecations and Deletions: - Kernel#require\_gem has been removed - Executables without a shebang will not be wrapped in a future version, this may cause such executables to fail to operate on installation - Gem::Platform constants other than RUBY and CURRENT have been removed - Gem::RemoteInstaller was removed - Gem::Specification#test\_suite\_file and #test\_suite\_file= are deprecated in favor of #test\_file and #test\_file= - Gem::Specification#autorequire= has been deprecated - Time::today will be removed in a future version == How can I get RubyGems? NOTE: If you have installed RubyGems using a package you may want to install a new RubyGems through the same packaging system. If you have a recent version of RubyGems (0.8.5 or later), then all you need to do is: $ gem update --system (you might need to be admin/root) (Note: You may have to run the command twice if you have any previosly installed rubygems-update gems). If you have an older version of RubyGems installed, then you can still do it in two steps: $ gem install rubygems-update (again, might need to be admin/root) $ update\_rubygems (… here too) If you don’t have any gems install, there is still the pre-gem approach to getting software … doing it manually: 1. DOWNLOAD FROM: [http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=126](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126) 2. UNPACK INTO A DIRECTORY AND CD THERE 3. INSTALL WITH: ruby setup.rb (you may need admin/root privilege) == Thanks Keep those gems coming! – Jim & Chad & Eric (for the RubyGems team) ---
**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 10:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748/2 "2007-12-20T10:01:05Z")
On Dec 20, 2007, at 24:33 AM, Eric H. wrote: > Release 1.0.0 fixes several bugs. There’s an issue with installing on Ruby versions 1.8.5 and earlier. I’ll fix this tomorrow and re-release. ---
**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 11:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748/3 "2007-12-20T11:24:02Z")
> – Jim & Chad & Eric (for the RubyGems team) Many thanks for fixing the memory usage of the bulk update. Works perfectly on my 256Mb VPS now. thanks, Dan ---
**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748/4 "2007-12-20T21:00:42Z")
When I install my own gem on one of my systems rubygems adds a dash to the filename, or gem name? example: ~/box$ gem install ruby/email\_agent-0.5.1.gem Successfully installed email\_agent, version 0.5.1 Installing ri documentation for email\_agent-0.5.1-… Installing RDoc documentation for email\_agent-0.5.1-… Why is that - after the version number there? Anyone know. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 9:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748/5 "2007-12-20T21:58:10Z")
After trying to install both from the source and from gem update –system I get /usr/bin/gem:23: uninitialized constant Gem::GemRunner (NameError) when I try to run it. I am using ruby 1.8.6 on a Ubuntu system. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 10:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748/6 "2007-12-20T22:05:46Z")
Seems to have somethign to do with having to sudo gem update, now if I runit with > sudo gem list it works which I didn’t have to do before. I’ll investigate further. ---
**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 10:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748/7 "2007-12-20T22:28:37Z")
On Dec 20, 2007, at 13:20 PM, Joe Van D. wrote: > ``` > from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/requirement.rb: > > ``` > > specification.rb:540:in `initialize' ... 25 levels... from ./spec/models/../spec_helper.rb:4:in`require’ > from ./spec/models/…/spec\_helper.rb:4 > from spec/models/puzzle\_spec.rb:1:in `require’ > from spec/models/puzzle\_spec.rb:1 > > Any ideas? You need more data? Is it possible to downgrade to > rubygems 0.9.5? I’ll need a full backtrace. You can download RubyGems 0.9.5 and install it from the tarball to revert. ---
**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748/8 "2007-12-20T22:21:36Z")
On Dec 20, 12:33 am, Eric H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > - Fixed various bugs and problems with installing gems on Windows > - OpenSSL is no longer required by default > deprecated in > If you have a recent version ofRubyGems(0.8.5 or later), then all > $ gem installrubygems-update (again, might need to be admin/root) > > Keep those gems coming! > > – Jim & Chad & Eric (for theRubyGemsteam) I upgraded to RubyGems 1.0.0. Running ruby 1.8.6 on OS X. When I try to run a spec file in my Rails project, I get: /opt/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/requirement.rb:144:in `parse': Illformed requirement [""] (ArgumentError) from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/requirement.rb: 70:in `initialize’ from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/requirement.rb: 69:in `map' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/requirement.rb: 69:in `initialize’ from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/requirement.rb: 45:in `new' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/requirement.rb: 45:in `create’ from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ specification.rb:413:in `required_rubygems_version=' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/ builder-2.1.2.gemspec:7:in `load\_specification’ from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ specification.rb:540:in `initialize' ... 25 levels... from ./spec/models/../spec_helper.rb:4:in `require’ from ./spec/models/…/spec\_helper.rb:4 from spec/models/puzzle\_spec.rb:1:in `require’ from spec/models/puzzle\_spec.rb:1 Any ideas? You need more data? Is it possible to downgrade to rubygems 0.9.5? ---
**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748/9 "2007-12-20T23:41:15Z")
On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Jim M. wrote: > when I try to run it. > > I am using ruby 1.8.6 on a Ubuntu system. Did you see the NOTE? I think this is your problem. ---
**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748/10 "2007-12-21T03:52:35Z")
On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:00 PM, John P. wrote: > When I install my own gem on one of my systems rubygems adds a dash > to the filename, or gem name? > > example: > ~/box$ gem install ruby/email\_agent-0.5.1.gem > Successfully installed email\_agent, version 0.5.1 > Installing ri documentation for email\_agent-0.5.1-… > Installing RDoc documentation for email\_agent-0.5.1-… > > Why is that - after the version number there? Can I see `gem env` output? Also, what version of RubyGems was used to build the gem? ---
**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748/11 "2007-12-20T23:00:47Z")
Jim M. wrote: > > After trying to install both from the source and from gem update --system > > I get > > > > /usr/bin/gem:23: uninitialized constant Gem::GemRunner (NameError) > > > > when I try to run it. > > > > I am using ruby 1.8.6 on a Ubuntu system. > > > > Thanks Ok this has something to do with the way Ubuntu installs ruby (surprise surprise!) The work around for me was to nuke the /usr/lib/ruby directory by renaming it ruby.old Install ruby from the source into /usr/local/ruby copy all my gems from /usr/lib/ruby.old/gems to /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems also nuke /usr/bin/gem\* and install gem into /usr/local/bin Seems to have fixed it, what a mess!! ---
**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748/12 "2007-12-21T22:17:15Z")
Eric H. wrote: > Yes I did see the note, however I did not install rubygems via the apt system I originally installed it manually. However There were a number of other issues as Ruby was installed via the apt system, and the solution I found I posted here. ---
**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 7:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748/13 "2007-12-21T19:20:01Z")
On Dec 20, 2007 2:57 PM, Jim M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > After trying to install both from the source and from gem update --system > I get > > /usr/bin/gem:23: uninitialized constant Gem::GemRunner (NameError) > > when I try to run it. > > I am using ruby 1.8.6 on a Ubuntu system. > > Thanks > – > Jim M., [http://blog.wolfman.com](http://blog.wolfman.com) The most common cause of upgrade issues on Ubuntu is if you installed rubygems via apt-get, you can’t upgrade via its normal sudo gem upgrade --system, you have to replace it with another .deb. It has been recommended that the Ubuntu package remove the command upgrade –system. – Daniel Brumbaugh K. ---
**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748/14 "2007-12-21T22:26:41Z")
On Dec 21, 2007, at 13:16 PM, Jim M. wrote: > Yes I did see the note, however I did not install rubygems via the > apt system I originally installed it manually. > > However There were a number of other issues as Ruby was installed > via the apt system, and the solution I found I posted here. Ok, thanks. I’ve not heard of this problem before. Perhaps something is odd with apt packaged ruby’s rbconfig.rb, so `gem` was placed in a different path. ---
**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748/15 "2007-12-21T23:08:17Z")
Jim M. wrote: > Eric H. wrote: > > > > > Yes I did see the note, however I did not install rubygems via the apt > system I originally installed > it manually. > > However There were a number of other issues as Ruby was installed via > the apt system, and the > solution I found I posted here. > I’m in the same situation. Regards Jan ---
**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748/16 "2007-12-22T02:44:07Z")
On Dec 21, 2007, at 14:08 PM, Jan F. wrote: > > solution I found I posted here. > > I’m in the same situation. Do you have a /usr/local/bin/gem ? Can you give me `gem env` output from it? ---
**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748/17 "2007-12-22T19:38:17Z")
Eric H. wrote: > On Dec 21, 2007, at 14:08 PM, Jan F. wrote: > > > > solution I found I posted here. > > > I’m in the same situation. > > Do you have a /usr/local/bin/gem ? > > Can you give me `gem env` output from it? I’m also in the same situation (ruby from Apt and RubyGems manually installed). If i do: # gem env /usr/local/bin/gem:23: uninitialized constant Gem::GemRunner (NameError) # diff /usr/local/bin/gem /usr/bin/gem # (no differences) I’ve upgraded from rubygems 0.9.2. If i return back: ~/rubygems-0.9.2# ruby setup.rb (…) ~/rubygems-0.9.2# gem env RubyGems Environment: - VERSION: 0.9.2 (0.9.2) - 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) ~/rubygems-0.9.2# gem update --system (…) ~/rubygems-0.9.2# gem -v /usr/local/bin/gem:23: uninitialized constant Gem::GemRunner (NameError) I know from other installs that rubygems 0.9.5 works perfectly with ruby 1.8.6 (ubuntu’s apt). Regards, ---
**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 9:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748/18 "2007-12-24T09:54:09Z")
Ok, i solved the problem (i had it in many computers, all of them Ubuntu). The problem was /usr/bin/gem is not updated. Seems all the files but /usr/bin/gem are updated to 1.0.1 First of all: gem update --system I renamed all de /usr/local/bin/gem\* to /usr/local/bin/gem\*.bak (if any). All the good bins are in my /usr/bin/gem\* (only one place) Then i overwrite that /usr/bin/gem with an updated copy. I put here the contents of an 1.0.1 /usr/bin/gem script if anyone wants to manually copy-paste it: #------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/ruby1.8 #– # Copyright 2006 by Chad F., Rich Kilmer, Jim W. and others. # All rights reserved. # See LICENSE.txt for permissions. #++ require ‘rubygems’ require ‘rubygems/gem\_runner’ required\_version = Gem::Requirement.new “\>= 1.8.2” unless required\_version.satisfied\_by? Gem::Version.new(RUBY\_VERSION) then abort “Expected Ruby Version #{required\_version}, was #{RUBY\_VERSION}” end # We need to preserve the original ARGV to use for passing gem options # to source gems. If there is a – in the line, strip all options after # it…its for the source building process. args = !ARGV.include?("–") ? ARGV.clone : ARGV[0…ARGV.index("–")] Gem::GemRunner.new.run args #------------------------------------------------------------------------- After that, all the problems are gone: # gem -v 1.0.1 Regards, ---
**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 1:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748/19 "2007-12-24T13:08:35Z")
On Dec 22, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Jonathan Hernandez wrote: > installed). If i do: > > ~/rubygems-0.9.2# gem update --system > (…) > ~/rubygems-0.9.2# gem -v > /usr/local/bin/gem:23: uninitialized constant Gem::GemRunner > (NameError) > > I know from other installs that rubygems 0.9.5 works perfectly with > ruby > 1.8.6 (ubuntu’s apt). Can you get a complete install log? ---
**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748/20 "2007-12-22T23:07:38Z")
I was on Fiesty which still had 1.8.4 I think, and I presumed my problem was due to the initial gem release didn’t work with 1.8.4 So I upgraded to a source install of 1.8.6 to /usr/local/lib and thats when I ran into more (non gem related) problems. I finally solved them all, but from now on I’m sticking with source installs and staying away from apt installs for any ruby related thing. One gotcha is when you move from /usr/lib to /usr/local/lib you need to pretty much reboot to flush the library caches etc. Also for safe measure I renamed all the /usr/bin and /usr/lib/ruby stuff to .old so I don’t pick them up. Especially note that apt seems to have a /usr/lib/siteruby whereas source installs have a /usr/local/lib/ruby/siteruby which does seem to confuse a lot of things. Lastly I think mixing and matching apt installs with source installs seems very problematical, so avoid it 🙂 Unfortunately the apt system never has the latest gem or ruby so if you need them go for source installs. One thing I didn’t try which may have worked better was to build a ruby apt package and install that, ditto for gem. Best of luck! [Next page](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-0-0/123748.md?page=2)