# Rubygems Weirdness **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 28, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-weirdness/87196 "2007-02-28T20:23:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rooster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@rooster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rooster)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-weirdness/87196/1 "2007-02-28T20:23:51Z")
Hi, I’ve been experiencing some strange behavior with rubygems. Background: Solaris 10 x86 ruby 1.8.4 rubygems-0.9.2 I dont’ have access to the default rubygems repository, so I’m trying to set one up in my user dir. I know about the poisoned gem index thing and I’ve removed all the old cache files… so I’m pretty sure that’s not where the problem lies. Anyway, I setup my GEM\_HOME environment variable, downloaded rubygems 0.9.2 and installed it in my home directory using: |$ ruby setup.rb config --prefix=/path/to/my/home $ ruby setup.rb setup $ ruby setup.rb install Here's where it gets weird. At the end of the installation, it tells me: Successfully built RubyGem Name: sources Version: 0.0.1 File: sources-0.0.1.gem Removing old RubyGems RDoc and ri… Installing rubygems-0.8.11 ri… Installing rubygems-0.8.11 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. What??? 0.8.11 Ok, so then I run [gem update --system] and I get: Upgrading RubyGems... Attempting remote upgrade of rubygems-update Attempting remote installation of 'rubygems-update' Successfully installed rubygems-update-0.9.2 Updating version of RubyGems to 0.9.2 Installing RubyGems 0.9.2 ---\> 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 /opt/csw/bin/ install gem /opt/csw/bin/ setup.rb:466:in `chmod': Not owner - /opt/csw/bin/gem (Errno::EPERM) from setup.rb:466:in `rm\_f' from setup.rb:513:in `install' from setup.rb:1093:in `verbose\_off' from setup.rb:512:in `install' from setup.rb:1200:in `install\_files' from setup.rb:1199:in `install_files' from setup.rb:1179:in `install\_dir\_bin' from setup.rb:1328:in `traverse' from setup.rb:1345:in `dive\_into' from setup.rb:1326:in `traverse' from setup.rb:1320:in `exec\_task\_traverse' from setup.rb:1315:in `exec_task_traverse' from setup.rb:1175:in `exec\_install' from setup.rb:894:in `exec_install' from setup.rb:712:in `invoke' from setup.rb:681:in `invoke' from setup.rb:1359 RubyGems system software updated Ok, this is bizarre. It’s trying to update the system wide version of rubygems? What if I try running [/path/to/my/home/bin/gem update --system] ??? Same results as above. My GEM\_HOME environment variable is set so??? running [gem env] shows me that my gem environment _seems_ to be ok: - VERSION: 0.8.11 (0.8.11) - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /path/to/my/home/lib/ruby/gems - GEM PATH: - /path/to/my/home/lib/ruby/gems - REMOTE SOURCES: - [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) I really need some help with this as I have no idea why rubygems are behaving this way. Regards, Steven | ---
**Author:** ![rooster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@rooster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rooster)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 1:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-weirdness/87196/2 "2007-03-01T01:24:49Z")
On Feb 28, 2007, at 11:52, Steven H. wrote: > Ok, I figured out the problem, I just had to setup an environment > variable: > > RUBYLIB=:/path/to/my/home/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8 > > That fixed it. > > Oddly enough, I don’t see this information anywhere on the rubygems > manual page: > [http://rubygems.org/read/chapter/3#page83](http://rubygems.org/read/chapter/3#page83) Can you file a bug in the RubyGems tracker? Otherwise nobody will remember to fix it. ---
**Author:** ![rooster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@rooster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rooster)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-weirdness/87196/3 "2007-02-28T20:52:56Z")
I’ve been experiencing some strange behavior with rubygems. > that’s not where the problem lies. Anyway, I setup my GEM\_HOME > environment variable, downloaded rubygems 0.9.2 and installed it in my > home directory using: > > |$ ruby setup.rb config --prefix=/path/to/my/home > $ ruby setup.rb setup > $ ruby setup.rb install Ok, I figured out the problem, I just had to setup an environment variable: RUBYLIB=:/path/to/my/home/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8 That fixed it. Oddly enough, I don’t see this information anywhere on the rubygems manual page: [http://rubygems.org/read/chapter/3#page83](http://rubygems.org/read/chapter/3#page83)