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Andrew

05 Jul, 2011 11:22 PM

Hello

After having tried the various methods such as:

$ gem update --system $ gem install rubygems-update

and getting:

ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteSourceException)

HTTP Response 302

I read here that I need to update rubygems, so tried to do it manually. But when I download and run
ruby setup.rb
I get:

./lib/rubygems.rb:334: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version ./lib/rubygems.rb:511: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version ./lib/rubygems/dependency_list.rb:8:in `require': ./lib/rubygems/deprecate.rb:53: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting '|' (SyntaxError)

  define_method name do |*args, &block| # TODO: really works on 1.8.7?
                               ^

./lib/rubygems/deprecate.rb:54: syntax error, unexpected tCONSTANT, expecting '}' ./lib/rubygems/deprecate.rb:63: syntax error, unexpected kEND, expecting '}' ./lib/rubygems/deprecate.rb:68: syntax error, unexpected kEND, expecting '}' from ./lib/rubygems/dependency_list.rb:8

from ./lib/rubygems.rb:29:in `require'
from ./lib/rubygems.rb:29
from setup.rb:27:in `require'
from setup.rb:27

and no go with rubygems.

I have tried removing rubygems by this method: http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-May/038251.html

but still no go, and now I have no rubygems at all.

I have recently upgraded to Snow Leopard and apparently am running ruby v.1.8.6

Any ideas???

1. Support Staff 2 Posted by Eric Hodel on 05 Jul, 2011 11:32 PM

   

   RubyGems 1.4 and newer only run on Ruby 1.8.7.

   Snow Leopard ships with Ruby 1.8.7.

   You will either need to:

   Use Ruby 1.8.7 (or newer) from Snow Leopard

   Build Ruby 1.8.7 (or newer) and install RubyGems on it

   Download RubyGems 1.3.7 from Rubyforge:

   http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126
   

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2. 3 Posted by Andrew on 06 Jul, 2011 01:14 AM

   

   Thanks I have done the above using Macports and have it working now - I thought when I upgraded to Snow Leopard it would have given me the appropriate Ruby versions but it seems not to have done - and kept my older version of Ruby 1.8.6 - does 1.8.7 only come with a clean install of Snow Leopard??

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3. Support Staff 4 Posted by Eric Hodel on 06 Jul, 2011 01:51 AM

   

   Apple's ruby ships in /usr/bin.

   If you've adjusted your path before upgrading to Snow Leopard you may have been using a ruby from /usr/local/bin or /opt/local/bin. The upgrade won't undo changes you've made to your $PATH.

   You can use gem env to see where ruby lives.

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