I have RubGems 1.1.0 installed on my Fedora Core 5 machine along with a
lot of rails 2.0.2 stuff. I want to upgrade to version 1.2.0 as easily
as possible. I typed in:
gem update --system
as root but that did not do it. It says nothing to update.
How do I upgrade it?
Thanks.
Bharat
you can use:
gem update rails
or
gem install rails
to get the latest version. the “update --system” will update the
rubygems
software
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Bharat R. <
AnnaLissa, thats exactly what Bharat wants
To update RubyGems (not
rails)
I get a similar problem on a Mac. It worked once, but I had to roll back
to
1.1.x because it wouldn’t find Piston. Now it wont update to 1.2.0 at
all.
Keeps reporting “Nothing to update”.
Regards
Kieran
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 11:46 AM, AnnaLissa C. [email protected]
Sorry about that. Obviously not thinking too straight on this holiday.

after a quick search, I found this:
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=20775&group_id=126&atid=575
As suggested, perhaps running this command first might do the trick:
gem install rubygems-update -v 1.1.1
Regards,
a.l.
Here is what worked for me last night:
gem install rubygems-update
update_rubygems
Note that on systems like Ubuntu, you have to precede these commands
with “sudo”, I was updating a Fedora box.
I got these instructions from the following link:
http://www.rubygems.org/read/chapter/3
If you scroll down to section 3.3 titled Updating RubyGems, you will see
them.
Note that these instructions are listed for updating RubyGems prior to
0.8.5, however, they worked for me even though I was upgrading from
RubyGems 1.1.0. I am not arguing with what works.
Hope this helps.
Bharat