Talk:RubyGems

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Contents 1 Added Instructions About the .gemrc File 2 Added External Link 3 Rubygems 0.9.4 install fails with permission errors. 4 "can't instantiate uninitialized class"

Added Instructions About the .gemrc File

I had problems with the instructions which were resolved when I added a .gemrc file, as described in the forum: http://discussion.dreamhost.com/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=forum_programming&Number=63139&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=14&part=1#Post64202 --Fortuity 15:24, 16 Dec 2006 (PST)

Added External Link

This tutorial (at another hosting provider) is very clear:

* How To Install Your Own Gems for Rails

It might be helpful to borrow from it in rewriting the RubyGems page. --Fortuity 17:03, 19 Dec 2006 (PST)

Rubygems 0.9.4 install fails with permission errors.

ruby setup.rb install fails with something like this:

setup.rb:633:in `initialize': Permission denied - /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/gemconfigure.r b (Errno::EACCES)
from setup.rb:633:in `open'
from setup.rb:633:in `install'
from setup.rb:1377:in `install_files'
from setup.rb:1376:in `each'
from setup.rb:1376:in `install_files'
from setup.rb:1350:in `install_dir_lib'
from setup.rb:1532:in `__send__'
from setup.rb:1532:in `traverse'
... 7 levels...
from setup.rb:826:in `__send__'
from setup.rb:826:in `invoke'
from setup.rb:773:in `invoke'
from setup.rb:1578

the solution is to use:

ruby setup.rb install --prefix=$HOME

"can't instantiate uninitialized class"

I'm in a little over my head, so it's possible I've made some stupid mistake. However: even though all the installation steps seem to work (right down to "which gem; gem -v"), whenever I try to install a new gem I get the same error message that led me to install my own RubyGems system in the first place:

[whittier]$ gem install rfacebook
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (TypeError)
   can't instantiate uninitialized class

Any advice? Tlogmer 20:14, 26 October 2007 (PDT)