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Adam

05 May, 2010 01:46 AM

Greetings,

I was following the MongoDB tutorial to install the Mongo Ruby Driver Gem for Ruby. It said to first update to RubyGems 1.3.6 so I did. And this is what I got

`C:>gem update --system Updating RubyGems
Updating rubygems-update
Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.3.6
Updating RubyGems to 1.3.6
Installing RubyGems 1.3.6
RubyGems 1.3.6 installed
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES)

Permission denied - ./Gem/cdesc-Gem.yaml

` So it appears that RubyGems 1.3.6 was installed but then I got a nasty error. Since I am a beginner to Ruby and installing gems I have no idea what went wrong and how to fix this issue.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Adam

1. 2 Posted by Adam on 05 May, 2010 01:52 AM

   

   Sorry for messing up the last line of the command line results. I will post it again in a clear manner:

   C:>gem update --system
   Updating RubyGems
   Updating rubygems-update
   Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.3.6
   Updating RubyGems to 1.3.6
   Installing RubyGems 1.3.6
   RubyGems 1.3.6 installed
   ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES)
   Permission denied - ./Gem/cdesc-Gem.yaml

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2. Support Staff 3 Posted by Nick Quaranto on 05 May, 2010 03:31 AM

   

   Seems like you're on Windows. Are you running as Administrator? I bet you installed Ruby/RubyGems as an Administrator and you don't have privileges to overwrite those files, etc.

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3. 4 Posted by Adam on 05 May, 2010 02:06 PM

   

   Ahh yes. Forgot to mention that fact.

   I am on Windows Vista x64. All I remember is installing ruby 1.9.1p243 (2009-07-16 revision 24175) [i386-mingw32]. I suppose RubyGems was installed automatically with that version. I forget the details of that installation but, I assume UAC prompted me to go into temporary Admin mode as it does for most installations.

   So do you know how I would go into Admin mode (while in the command prompt ) to update RubyGems ?

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4. 5 Posted by Adam on 05 May, 2010 02:28 PM

   

   I figured out that I just have to right click cmd.exe and choose 'Run as Admin'. I did that and tried to update RubyGems and this is what happened:

   C:>gem update --system
   Updating RubyGems
   Nothing to update

   C:>

   So am I good to go or not? Is there a way I can check the version of RubyGems and integrity of the install to make sure we are at 100% health?

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5. Support Staff 6 Posted by Eric Hodel on 05 May, 2010 05:23 PM

   

   Your installation failed while building the RDoc. You can force the update by running update_rubygems.

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6. 7 Posted by Adam on 05 May, 2010 07:49 PM

   

   Hi drbrain. Ok so I did as you said and all seemed to flow well. Please verify if the update went A-ok. Here are my results just to be thorough:

   C:>update_rubygems
   RubyGems 1.3.6 installed

   === 1.3.6 / 2010-02-17

   NOTE:

   http://rubygems.org is now the default source for downloading gems.

   You may have sources set via ~/.gemrc, so you should replace
   http://gems.rubyforge.org with http://rubygems.org

   http://gems.rubyforge.org will continue to work for the forseeable future.

   New features:

   • gem commands
     • Added gem push and gem owner for interacting with modern/Gemcutter sources
     • gem dep now supports --prerelease.
     • gem fetch now supports --prerelease.
     • gem server now supports --bind. Patch #27357 by Bruno Michel.
     • gem rdoc no longer overwrites built documentation. Use --overwrite force rebuilding. Patch #25982 by Akinori MUSHA.
   • Captial letters are now allowed in prerelease versions.

   Bug fixes:

   • Development deps are no longer added to rubygems-update gem so older versions can update sucessfully.
   • Installer bugs:
     • Prerelease gems can now depend on non-prerelease gems.
     • Development dependencies are ignored unless explicitly needed. Bug #27608 by Roger Pack.
   • gem commands
     • gem which now fails if no paths were found. Adapted patch #27681 by Caio Chassot.
     • gem server no longer has invalid markup. Bug #27045 by Eric Young.
     • gem list and friends show both prerelease and regular gems when --prerelease --all is given
   • Gem::Format no longer crashes on empty files. Bug #27292 by Ian Ragsdale.
   • Gem::GemPathSearcher handles nil require_paths. Patch #27334 by Roger Pack.
   • Gem::RemoteFetcher no longer copies the file if it is where we want it. Patch #27409 by Jakub ┼á┼Ñastn├╜.

   Deprecation Notices:

   • lib/rubygems/timer.rb has been removed.
   • Gem::Dependency#version_requirements is deprecated and will be removed on or after August 2010.
   • Bulk index update is no longer supported.
   • Gem::manage_gems was removed in 1.3.3.
   • Time::today was removed in 1.3.3.

   ---

   RubyGems installed the following executables:
   

       c:/Ruby19/bin/gem
   

   C:>

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7. Support Staff 8 Posted by Eric Hodel on 05 May, 2010 08:17 PM

   

   Looks good.

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