Gem runner bug on slicehost installation

January 2nd, 2008 | code, rails

So, I got and interesting error when I installed and updated my rubygems on my slicehost account

sudo gem update --system

caused
uninitialized constant Gem::GemRunner (NameError)

The solution:
Add require “rubygems/gem_runner” on line 23

Change it from:
require 'rubygems' Gem.manage_gems

To:
require 'rubygems' require 'rubygems/gem_runner' Gem.manage_gems

#1 Ben Reubenstein on 01.03.08 at 11:04 am

This fixes a hosed upgrade on Debian Lenny of ruby gems originally installed through apt-get. Been looking for a fix for a while! Thx.

#2 Tim Carey-Smith on 02.12.08 at 2:54 pm

Rubygems seems to install /usr/bin/gem1.8, so you can remove /usr/bin/gem and create a symlink from /usr/bin/gem1.8 to /usr/bin/gem.

This seems to work nicely.

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