# Rubygems and CentOS 4.4

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-and-centos-4-4/86597>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 23, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-and-centos-4-4/86597 "2007-02-23T15:32:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-and-centos-4-4/86597/1 "2007-02-23T15:32:52Z")

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Something very strange has happened for me, and I’d like to know if I’m  
doing something stupid.

I wanted to install activerecord, and to do so I thought it would be a  
good  
idea to install rubygems to do the work for me. So I downloaded  
rubygems-0.9.2 from  
[http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=126&release\_id=9501](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126&release_id=9501),  
did “ruby setup.rb” as root. This seemed to start OK but then gave some  
errors:

```
...
setup.rb:18:15: Couldn't find File. Assuming it's a module

test/functional.rb:158:0: Unrecognized directive 'section'
hook /v/build/rubygems-0.9.2/./post-install.rb failed:
undefined local variable or method `size' for 

```

#SM::ToFlow:0xb7a6d230  
Try ‘ruby setup.rb --help’ for detailed usage.

I then tried “gem install activerecord” and it failed immediately:

```
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
    Could not find activerecord (> 0) in any repository

```

even though “gem query --remote --name-matches active” worked and showed  
the  
gem. The full transcript of what I did is shown below.

This is running under CentOS-4.4 which currently has only ruby 1.8.1:

[root@localhost rubygems-0.9.2]# cat /etc/redhat-release  
CentOS release 4.4 (Final)  
[root@localhost rubygems-0.9.2]# ruby -v  
ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i386-linux-gnu]

Now, while I was composing this mail, I tried again, firstly with a  
smaller  
package:

[root@localhost rubygems-0.9.2]# gem install redcloth  
Successfully installed RedCloth-3.0.4  
[root@localhost rubygems-0.9.2]# gem install activerecord  
Install required dependency activesupport? [Yn] y  
Successfully installed activerecord-1.15.2  
Successfully installed activesupport-1.4.1  
Installing ri documentation for activerecord-1.15.2…  
Installing ri documentation for activesupport-1.4.1…  
Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-1.15.2…  
ERROR: While executing gem … (NoMethodError)  
undefined method `find\_module\_named’ for nil:NilClass  
[root@localhost rubygems-0.9.2]#

So it got further this time, but still bombed out in the end.

Any suggestions as to what I should do? I don’t find this problem listed  
on  
the rubygems FAQ at [http://docs.rubygems.org/read/book/3](http://docs.rubygems.org/read/book/3) and neither do  
I  
see any requirements saying that rubygems needs ruby version X.X.X to  
work.

Thanks,

Brian.

* * *

[root@localhost rubygems-0.9.2]# ruby setup.rb  
—\> bin  
\<— bin  
—\> lib  
—\> lib/rbconfig  
\<— lib/rbconfig  
—\> lib/rubygems  
\<— lib/rubygems  
\<— lib  
—\> bin  
\<— bin  
—\> lib  
—\> lib/rbconfig  
\<— lib/rbconfig  
—\> lib/rubygems  
\<— lib/rubygems  
\<— lib  
rm -f InstalledFiles  
—\> bin  
mkdir -p /usr/bin/  
install gemwhich /usr/bin/  
install index\_gem\_repository.rb /usr/bin/  
install gemri /usr/bin/  
install gem /usr/bin/  
install update\_rubygems /usr/bin/  
install gem\_server /usr/bin/  
install gemlock /usr/bin/  
install gem\_mirror /usr/bin/  
\<— bin  
—\> lib  
mkdir -p /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/  
install ubygems.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/  
install rubygems.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/  
install gemconfigure.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/  
—\> lib/rbconfig  
mkdir -p /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rbconfig  
install datadir.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rbconfig  
\<— lib/rbconfig  
—\> lib/rubygems  
mkdir -p /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install version.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install installer.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install command.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install cmd\_manager.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install source\_info\_cache.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install rubygems\_version.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install gem\_runner.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install doc\_manager.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install open-uri.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install custom\_require.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install dependency\_list.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install remote\_fetcher.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install server.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install config\_file.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install specification.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install source\_index.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install remote\_installer.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install gem\_commands.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install timer.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install builder.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install user\_interaction.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install security.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install gem\_openssl.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install source\_info\_cache\_entry.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install gem\_open\_uri.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install format.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install old\_format.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install validator.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install package.rb /usr/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
\<— lib/rubygems  
\<— lib  
Successfully built RubyGem  
Name: sources  
Version: 0.0.1  
File: sources-0.0.1.gem  
Removing old RubyGems RDoc and ri…  
Installing rubygems-0.9.2 ri…

setup.rb:18:15: Couldn’t find File. Assuming it’s a module

test/functional.rb:158:0: Unrecognized directive ‘section’  
hook /v/build/rubygems-0.9.2/./post-install.rb failed:  
undefined local variable or method `size’ for #SM::ToFlow:0xb7a6d230  
Try ‘ruby setup.rb --help’ for detailed usage.  
[root@localhost rubygems-0.9.2]# gem install activerecord  
Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::GemNotFoundException)  
Could not find activerecord (\> 0) in any repository  
[root@localhost rubygems-0.9.2]# gem query --remote --name-matches  
active

\*\*\* REMOTE GEMS \*\*\*  
Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)

active\_acl (0.2.1, 0.2.0)  
Provides an unintrusive, scalable and very flexible approach to fine  
grained access control.

activedirectory (0.9.3)  
Module for easy interaction with Active Directory servers.

activemerchant (1.0.2, 1.0.1, 1.0.0)  
Framework and tools for dealing with credit card transactions.

activerdf (1.3.1, 1.3, 1.2.3, 1.2.2, 1.2.1, 1.2, 1.1, 1.0)  
Offers object-oriented access to RDF (with adapters to several  
datastores).

activerdf\_rdflite (1.2.3, 1.2.2, 1.2.1, 1.2, 1.1, 1.0)  
an RDF database for usage in ActiveRDF (based on sqlite3)

activerdf\_redland (1.1, 1.0)  
ActiveRDF adapter to Redland RDF store

activerdf\_rules (0.0.2, 0.0.1)  
A rulebase and forward chaining production system for activerdf  
databases

activerdf\_sesame (0.2.2, 0.2.1, 0.2, 0.1)  
jruby adapter to sesame2 datastore (for usage in ActiveRDF)

activerdf\_sparql (1.3, 1.2.1, 1.2, 1.1, 1.0)  
ActiveRDF adapter to SPARQL endpoint

activerecord (1.15.2, 1.15.1, 1.15.0, 1.14.4, 1.14.3, 1.14.2, 1.14.1,  
1.14.0, 1.13.2, 1.13.1, 1.13.0, 1.12.2, 1.12.1, 1.11.1, 1.11.0, 1.10.1,  
1.10.0, 1.9.1, 1.9.0, 1.8.0, 1.7.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.0, 1.4.0, 1.3.0,  
1.2.0, 1.1.0, 1.0.0, 0.9.5, 0.9.4, 0.9.3, 0.9.2, 0.9.1, 0.9.0, 0.8.4,  
0.8.3, 0.8.2, 0.8.1, 0.8.0, 0.7.6, 0.7.5)  
Implements the ActiveRecord pattern for ORM.

ActiveRecord-JDBC (0.2.2, 0.2.1, 0.0.1)  
JDBC support for ActiveRecord. Only usable within JRuby

activerecord-mimer (0.0.4, 0.0.3, 0.0.2, 0.0.1)  
Mimer support for ActiveRecord.

activesalesforce (1.1.0, 1.0.0, 0.6.3, 0.6.2, 0.6.1, 0.6.0, 0.5.9,  
0.5.8, 0.5.7, 0.5.6, 0.5.5, 0.5.4, 0.5.3, 0.5.2, 0.5.1, 0.5.0, 0.4.9,  
0.4.8, 0.4.7, 0.4.6, 0.4.5, 0.4.4, 0.4.3, 0.4.2, 0.4.0, 0.3.9, 0.3.8,  
0.3.7, 0.3.6, 0.3.4, 0.3.3, 0.3.2, 0.3.1, 0.3.0, 0.2.9, 0.2.8, 0.2.7,  
0.2.6, 0.2.5, 0.2.4, 0.2.3, 0.2.2, 0.2.1, 0.2.0, 0.1.9, 0.1.8, 0.1.7,  
0.1.6, 0.1.5, 0.1.4, 0.1.3, 0.1.2, 0.1.1, 0.1.0, 0.0.9, 0.0.8, 0.0.7,  
0.0.6, 0.0.5, 0.0.4, 0.0.3, 0.0.2)  
ActiveSalesforce (ASF) is a Rails connection adapter that provides  
direct access to [Salesforce.com](http://Salesforce.com) hosted data and metadata via the  
ActiveRecord model layer. Objects, fields, and relationships are all  
auto surfaced as active record attributes and rels.

activesambaldap (0.0.2, 0.0.1)  
ActiveSambaLdap is a library and a management tool for Samba + LDAP  
environment.

activespec (0.1)  
Ruby Specification Library

activesupport (1.4.1, 1.4.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.0, 1.2.5, 1.2.4, 1.2.3, 1.2.2,  
1.2.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.0, 1.0.4, 1.0.3, 1.0.2, 1.0.1, 1.0.0)  
Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework.

activewarehouse (0.2.0, 0.1.0)  
Build data warehouses with Rails.

activewarehouse-etl (0.5.2, 0.5.1, 0.5.0, 0.4.0, 0.3.0, 0.2.0, 0.1.0)  
Pure Ruby ETL package.

hyperactive (0.2.5, 0.2.4, 0.2.3, 0.2.2, 0.1.1, 0.1.0)  
A base class for persistent objects that uses archipelago for  
persistence. Useful for Ruby on Rails models for example.

ruby-activeldap (0.8.1, 0.8.0, 0.7.4, 0.7.3, 0.7.2, 0.7.1, 0.7.0, 0.6.0,  
0.5.9, 0.5.8, 0.5.7, 0.5.5, 0.5.4, 0.5.3, 0.5.2, 0.5.1, 0.5.0, 0.4.4,  
0.4.3, 0.4.2, 0.4.1)  
Ruby/ActiveLdap is a object-oriented API to LDAP

ruby-activeldap-debug (0.7.4, 0.7.3, 0.7.2, 0.7.1, 0.7.0, 0.6.0, 0.5.9,  
0.5.8, 0.5.7, 0.5.6, 0.5.5)  
Ruby/ActiveLDAP is a object-oriented API to LDAP  
[root@localhost rubygems-0.9.2]#

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**Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-and-centos-4-4/86597/2 "2007-02-23T15:41:54Z")

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On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 02:31:01PM +0000, Brian C. wrote:

> Any suggestions as to what I should do? I don’t find this problem listed on  
> the rubygems FAQ at [http://docs.rubygems.org/read/book/3](http://docs.rubygems.org/read/book/3) and neither do I  
> see any requirements saying that rubygems needs ruby version X.X.X to work.

Another example which doesn’t inspire much confidence:

[root@localhost rubygems-0.9.2]# gem install RubyInline  
Install required dependency hoe? [Yn] y  
Install required dependency rubyforge? [Yn] y  
Install required dependency rake? [Yn] y  
Successfully installed RubyInline-3.6.2  
Successfully installed hoe-1.2.0  
Successfully installed rubyforge-0.4.0  
Successfully installed rake-0.7.1  
Installing ri documentation for RubyInline-3.6.2…

test\_inline.rb:643:33: Skipping require of dynamic string:  
“#{tempfile.path}.rb”  
inline.rb:306:26: Skipping require of dynamic string: “#{so\_name}”

inline.rb:617:46: Skipping require of dynamic string: “inline/#{lang}”  
Installing ri documentation for hoe-1.2.0…  
Installing ri documentation for rubyforge-0.4.0…  
Installing ri documentation for rake-0.7.1…

lib/rake.rb:905:18: unexpected token: ‘#\<RubyToken::TkLPAREN:0xb7561948  
@line\_no=905, @text=“(”, @char\_no=7\>’  
Installing RDoc documentation for RubyInline-3.6.2…

test\_inline.rb:643:33: Skipping require of dynamic string:  
“#{tempfile.path}.rb”  
inline.rb:306:26: Skipping require of dynamic string: “#{so\_name}”

inline.rb:617:46: Skipping require of dynamic string: “inline/#{lang}”  
Installing RDoc documentation for hoe-1.2.0…  
Installing RDoc documentation for rubyforge-0.4.0…  
Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.7.1…

lib/rake.rb:905:18: unexpected token: ‘#\<RubyToken::TkLPAREN:0xb75b34f0  
@line\_no=905, @text=“(”, @char\_no=7\>’  
[root@localhost rubygems-0.9.2]#

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**Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-and-centos-4-4/86597/3 "2007-02-23T16:26:02Z")

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On Feb 23, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Brian C. wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 02:31:01PM +0000, Brian C. wrote:
> 
> > Any suggestions as to what I should do? I don’t find this problem  
> > listed on  
> > the rubygems FAQ at [http://docs.rubygems.org/read/book/3](http://docs.rubygems.org/read/book/3) and  
> > neither do I  
> > see any requirements saying that rubygems needs ruby version X.X.X  
> > to work.
> 
> Another example which doesn’t inspire much confidence:

What’s the problem?? This looks ok to me. Just warnings.

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**Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-and-centos-4-4/86597/4 "2007-02-23T16:44:06Z")

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On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 12:25:25AM +0900, Ryan D. wrote:

> What’s the problem?? This looks ok to me. Just warnings.  
> …
> 
> > lib/rake.rb:905:18: unexpected token: ‘#\<RubyToken::TkLPAREN:  
> > 0xb7561948 @line\_no=905, @text="(", @char\_no=7\>’

That looked a bit scary to me. But then I realised this was during rdoc  
processing, so it’s probably nothing to worry about.

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**Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-and-centos-4-4/86597/5 "2007-02-23T15:51:55Z")

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As a comparison point: I just tried this on an Ubuntu-6.06 system.  
rubygems  
itself installed without errors, but activerecord was not found on the  
first  
attempt. The RubyInline gem gave a similar set of warnings, but not the  
“unexpected token: '#\<RubyToken::TkLPAREN:…” one I saw before. And a  
second attempt to install activerecord was successful.

Regards,

Brian.

root@candlerb-desktop:/u/build/rubygems-0.9.2# ruby -v  
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i486-linux]  
root@candlerb-desktop:/u/build/rubygems-0.9.2# ruby setup.rb  
—\> bin  
\<— bin  
—\> lib  
—\> lib/rbconfig  
\<— lib/rbconfig  
—\> lib/rubygems  
\<— lib/rubygems  
\<— lib  
—\> bin  
\<— bin  
—\> lib  
—\> lib/rbconfig  
\<— lib/rbconfig  
—\> lib/rubygems  
\<— lib/rubygems  
\<— lib  
rm -f InstalledFiles  
—\> bin  
mkdir -p /usr/bin/  
install gem /usr/bin/  
install gem\_mirror /usr/bin/  
install gem\_server /usr/bin/  
install gemlock /usr/bin/  
install gemri /usr/bin/  
install gemwhich /usr/bin/  
install index\_gem\_repository.rb /usr/bin/  
install update\_rubygems /usr/bin/  
\<— bin  
—\> lib  
mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/  
install gemconfigure.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/  
install rubygems.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/  
install ubygems.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/  
—\> lib/rbconfig  
mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rbconfig  
install datadir.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rbconfig  
\<— lib/rbconfig  
—\> lib/rubygems  
mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install builder.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install cmd\_manager.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install command.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install config\_file.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install custom\_require.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install dependency\_list.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install doc\_manager.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install format.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install gem\_commands.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install gem\_open\_uri.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install gem\_openssl.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install gem\_runner.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install installer.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install old\_format.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install open-uri.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install package.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install remote\_fetcher.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install remote\_installer.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install rubygems\_version.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install security.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install server.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install source\_index.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install source\_info\_cache.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install source\_info\_cache\_entry.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install specification.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install timer.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install user\_interaction.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install validator.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
install version.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems  
\<— lib/rubygems  
\<— lib  
Successfully built RubyGem  
Name: sources  
Version: 0.0.1  
File: sources-0.0.1.gem  
Removing old RubyGems RDoc and ri…  
Installing rubygems-0.9.2 ri…  
Installing rubygems-0.9.2 rdoc…

As of RubyGems 0.8.0, library stubs are no longer needed.  
Searching $LOAD\_PATH for stubs to optionally delete (may take a  
while)…  
…done.  
No library stubs found.

root@candlerb-desktop:/u/build/rubygems-0.9.2# gem install activerecord  
Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::GemNotFoundException)  
Could not find activerecord (\> 0) in any repository  
root@candlerb-desktop:/u/build/rubygems-0.9.2# gem install RubyInline  
Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
Install required dependency hoe? [Yn] y  
Install required dependency rubyforge? [Yn] y  
Install required dependency rake? [Yn] y  
Successfully installed RubyInline-3.6.2  
Successfully installed hoe-1.2.0  
Successfully installed rubyforge-0.4.0  
Successfully installed rake-0.7.1  
Installing ri documentation for RubyInline-3.6.2…

inline.rb:306:26: Skipping require of dynamic string: “#{so\_name}”

inline.rb:617:46: Skipping require of dynamic string: “inline/#{lang}”

test\_inline.rb:643:33: Skipping require of dynamic string:  
"#{tempfile.path}.rb"Installing ri documentation for hoe-1.2.0…  
Installing ri documentation for rubyforge-0.4.0…  
Installing ri documentation for rake-0.7.1…  
Installing RDoc documentation for RubyInline-3.6.2…

inline.rb:306:26: Skipping require of dynamic string: “#{so\_name}”

inline.rb:617:46: Skipping require of dynamic string: “inline/#{lang}”

test\_inline.rb:643:33: Skipping require of dynamic string:  
"#{tempfile.path}.rb"Installing RDoc documentation for hoe-1.2.0…  
Installing RDoc documentation for rubyforge-0.4.0…  
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root@candlerb-desktop:/u/build/rubygems-0.9.2#  
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activerecordInstall required dependency activesupport? [Yn] y  
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**Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-and-centos-4-4/86597/6 "2007-02-23T20:00:37Z")

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On Feb 23, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Brian C. wrote:

> some  
> errors:
> 
> ```
> ...
> setup.rb:18:15: Couldn't find File. Assuming it's a module
> 
> ```

At this point, you should have stopped. Something is terribly wrong  
with your ruby installation. Rubygems has NOTHING to do with this.  
This has me worried.

> [root@localhost rubygems-0.9.2]# cat /etc/redhat-release  
> CentOS release 4.4 (Final)  
> [root@localhost rubygems-0.9.2]# ruby -v  
> ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i386-linux-gnu]

You need 1.8.2 at the very least. Newer is better.

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**Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-and-centos-4-4/86597/7 "2007-02-23T22:00:57Z")

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On Feb 23, 10:59 am, Ryan D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> > group\_id=126&release\_id=9501,
> 
> > [root@localhost rubygems-0.9.2]# cat /etc/redhat-release  
> > CentOS release 4.4 (Final)  
> > [root@localhost rubygems-0.9.2]# ruby -v  
> > ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i386-linux-gnu]
> 
> You need 1.8.2 at the very least. Newer is better.

I would upgrade to a more recent version of Ruby. I had similar  
problems on CentOS 4 and all were resolved when I simply build my own  
ruby from source and no older than 1.8.4.

Ken

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**Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-and-centos-4-4/86597/8 "2007-02-26T16:03:56Z")

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On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 02:31:35AM +0900, Jos B. wrote:

> Fwiw, I have been using the RPMs at  
> [http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/](http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/) on CentOS 4.1 and 4.4  
> without problems. You might want to give those a shot.

OK, I upgraded to these and now rubygems installs without bombing out.

Perhaps the rubygems webpage could be updated to say what the minimum  
Ruby  
version is that it needs? Or it could test for this and give a  
warning/error  
if you try to install it under a version which is too old?

Regards,

Brian.

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**Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-and-centos-4-4/86597/9 "2007-02-23T18:32:25Z")

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Fwiw, I have been using the RPMs at  
[http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/](http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/) on CentOS 4.1 and 4.4  
without problems. You might want to give those a shot.