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William

15 Aug, 2010 09:34 PM

I have been having this issue over the last few weeks when ever I do any no local gem commands. See full example below:

I'm running Windows Vista SP1 v 2.1f and have installed the 1.9.1p429 from the Ruby Installer.

Any Help would be apperciated, thanks

### Start of commands ###

C:\tools\Ruby191\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.9.1\rubygems>ruby -v
ruby 1.9.1p429 (2010-07-02 revision 28523) [i386-mingw32]

C:\tools\Ruby191\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.9.1\rubygems>gem -v
1.3.7

C:\tools\Ruby191\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.9.1\rubygems>gem list --local

  *** LOCAL GEMS ***



C:\tools\Ruby191\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.9.1\rubygems>gem update --system --debug
Exception `NameError' at C:/tools/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/command_manager.rb:164 - uninitialized constant Gem::Commands::UpdateCommand
Exception `Gem::LoadError' at C:/tools/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:779 - Could not find RubyGem test-unit (>= 0)

Updating RubyGems 
Exception `Errno::EINVAL' at C:/tools/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/spec_fetcher.rb:47 - Invalid argument -  c:
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Errno::EINVAL)
    Invalid argument -  c:
        C:/tools/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/spec_fetcher.rb:47:in `stat'
        C:/tools/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/spec_fetcher.rb:47:in `initialize'
        C:/tools/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/spec_fetcher.rb:38:in `new'
        C:/tools/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/spec_fetcher.rb:38:in `fetcher'
        C:/tools/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/commands/update_command.rb:168:in `block in which_to_update'
        C:/tools/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/commands/update_command.rb:161:in `each'
        C:/tools/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/commands/update_command.rb:161:in `which_to_update'
        C:/tools/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/commands/update_command.rb:75:in `execute'
        C:/tools/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/command.rb:270:in `invoke'
        C:/tools/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/command_manager.rb:134:in `process_args'
        C:/tools/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/command_manager.rb:104:in `run'
        C:/tools/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:58:in `run'
        C:/tools/Ruby191/bin/gem:21:in `<main>'

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Nick Quaranto on 16 Aug, 2010 08:22 PM

   

   Hi there...this seems pretty strange, and it definitely shouldn't happen. I would recommend installing Ruby via the RubyInstaller instead.

   http://rubyinstaller.org/

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2. 2 Posted by William Cherry on 16 Aug, 2010 10:58 PM

   

   Yeah, that's the way I did it both times. I had a slight older version
   (1.3.5) on another computer so I just copied over the whole Ruby directory
   and it's good again.

   Very strange, I was able to repeatably reproduce the issue on the laptop
   with the 1.3.7 version (Ruby 1.9.1p378 and Ruby 1.9.1p429).

   Ok, unless you have anything else for me to try; I'll say thank you for your
   help.

   On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Nick Quaranto <
   [email blocked]<tender%[email blocked]>
   > wrote:

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Nick Quaranto on 31 Aug, 2010 12:06 AM

   

   Yeah, not sure. I would try Ruby 1.9.2 instead, now that it's stable. :)

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4. 4 Posted by Gavin on 07 Oct, 2010 12:36 AM

   

   As per here http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/213689 "installation of RubyGems on
   top of RUby 1.9.2/1.9.3 is not supported."

   But it also does not work on Ruby 1.8.7? Maybe try 1.9.1?

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5. Support Staff 5 Posted by Nick Quaranto on 08 Oct, 2010 12:56 AM

   

   Yeah, RubyGems comes with Ruby 1.9+ but you can still upgrade it. Is there still a problem here? Would love to close this out.

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6. 6 Posted by John on 03 Nov, 2010 07:01 AM

   

   To set up a ROR development environment in Windows 7 and test it by creating an application called blog using mysql for your database, perform the following steps exactly as outlined below:

   Download and install rubyinstaller-1.9.2-p0.exe from http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167.
   I installed mine to the default location (c:\ruby192).
   I also checked both check boxes about system path and associating files to ruby.
   You do not need to install rubygems separately. It is included in rubyinstaller-1.9.2-p0.exe.
   If you do install it separately, the below steps will not work. The only file you
   need to download and install is rubyinstaller-1.9.2-p0.exe. (Trust me.)

   Open command prompt

   Perform the below Run commands in your command prompt (do not type Run: or # comment... of course)

   Run: gem install rails # rails will install...takes a couple of minutes

   Run: gem install mysql # installs the mysql2 gem

   Open another command prompt

   Run: rails server # wait for server to start

   Open browser and open localhost:3000 in url field # checks that server works with Riding On Rails Page opening

   Run: cd 'to_where_ever_you_want_to_install_your_application' # where you want to create your blog application in next step

   Run: rails new blog -database=mysql # creates application named blog

   Run: cd blog # changes directory to your new application named blog

   open blog\config\database.yml in your text editor and correct mysql2 usernames and passwords if necessary and save file

   Run: rake db:create:all # creates all databases

   Run: rake db:migrate # checks database connection...ok if no complaint by rails

   Run: rails generate model Article # open blog\db\migrate###...###_create_articles.rb and make changes as follows and save file:
   class CreateArticles < ActiveRecord::Migration
   def self.up

   create_table :articles do |t|
     t.string :title                               # add this line
     t.text :body                                 # add this line
     t.datetime :published_at        # add this line
   
     t.timestamps
   end

   end

   def self.down

   drop_table :articles

   end end

   Run: rake db:migrate # creates articles table in blog_development database as per previous step

   Run: rails generate controller articles

   Run: rails generate scaffold Article title:string body:text published_at:datetime --skip-migration

   ** Open browser and open localhost:3000/articles in url field # should open blog web page Listing Articles

   Click on link "New Article" # should open page with form for entering article information

   All the above worked great for me! Good Luck!
   

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7. Support Staff 7 Posted by Nick Quaranto on 04 Nov, 2010 05:12 PM

   

   Those instructions are probably better in a blog post somewhere :) Closing this one out for now.

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8. Nick Quaranto closed this discussion on 04 Nov, 2010 05:12 PM.