Macports and Ruby Gems 0.9.0 Fear of Fish

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Macports and Ruby Gems 0.9.0

October 23rd, 2006

For those of you who get a fresh macports installation of Ruby Gems on Mac OS X, be aware that you'll be getting ruby gems 0.9.0, and it's broken. You will get this error message:

/opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- sources (LoadError)
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:462:in `sources'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:472:in `source_index_hash'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:436:in `install'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:258:in `execute'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:220:in `each'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:220:in `execute'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command.rb:69:in `invoke'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:117:in `process_args'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:88:in `run'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:29:in `run'
      from /opt/local/bin/gem:23

The solution is simple, download the latest Ruby Gems from here, extract it and then run setup.rb. All should be fine then.

Categorised: Ruby on Rails

4 Responses to “Macports and Ruby Gems 0.9.0”

Josh Knowles said on: October 23rd, 2006 at 10:18 PM
Last I checked rb-mysql5 was broken too :-(
Bernd said on: May 8th, 2007 at 08:26 PM
Looks like you saved my day. I'll leave a trackback to your site and republish this in my German blog. Thanks alot
Rasmus said on: May 18th, 2007 at 08:33 PM
Thank you, your writeup really helped me !
Laserwhit said on: September 12th, 2007 at 11:34 PM
I just had a similar problem with macports when I got rubygems 0.9.4. Is anyone fixing this? Just wondering.

Jamie van Dyke

Jamie van Dyke has been a Rails developer since the beginning of 2005, working with some of the major players in the web market. He also played a large part in the documenting of Rails for the Caboose Documentation Project and teaches others on his blog and in training sessions around the world. Jamie is a core Rails contributor, and the publisher of multiple gems and plugins.

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