Gem under cygwin - is it supposed to work?

Ruby
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I am using two installation of Ruby 1.8.5 - one running natively under
Windows, and one
bundled with Cygwin.

The Cygwin installation does not come with gem, so after I had installed
gem 0.9.3 under
Windows, I installed it within my Cygwin environment.

Contrary to the installation under Windows, which issued an error
message, but left me
with a supposedly working “gem” (I have described this problem in a
separate thread),
the Cygwin installation of gem worked without errors, but the usage of
the package
does not seem to work:

$ gem install net-ssh
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
Could not find net-ssh (> 0) in any repository

So I wonder whether gem is intended to work at all under Cygwin. Anyone
already tried this?

BTW, here is my Cygwin gem environment:

$ gem environment
RubyGems Environment:

  • VERSION: 0.9.3 (0.9.3)
  • INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  • GEM PATH:
    • /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  • REMOTE SOURCES:
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On 5/14/07, Ronald F. [email protected] wrote:

message, but left me
Could not find net-ssh (> 0) in any repository

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

Try gem install -r net-ssh to install from a remote repository.

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Try gem install -r net-ssh to install from a remote repository.

Thank you - this worked indeed!

Of course I now wonder why the installation under pure Windows was able
to
locate the net-ssh package without having me specified the “-r”
option…
(I actually never had used -r before in my gem installations).

Ronald