Trouble with gems on Ubuntu

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I'm trying to install rails in my laptop, ubuntu partition, but gems won't work. This is what it says:

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did you use apt-get ?

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No. I used the directions here (note, I used rubygems-1.1.1.tgz instead): https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RubyOnRails

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Taro wrote:

What can I do to fix this?

In usr/bin/gem add

require 'rubygems/gem_runner'

right after the

require 'rubygems'

statement.

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Stick with Ubuntu rubygems and spare yourself the headaches. It works fine even at 0.9.4.

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Taro wrote:

No. I used the directions here (note, I used rubygems-1.1.1.tgz instead): https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RubyOnRails

did you use apt-get ?

> I'm trying to install rails in my laptop, ubuntu partition, but

gems

> won't work. This is what it says: > --- > $ sudo gem update --system > /usr/bin/gem:23: uninitialized constant Gem::GemRunner (NameError) > ---

> Obviously, the error exists here:

> --- > #! /usr/bin/ruby1.8 > #-- > # Copyright 2006 by Chad Fowler, Rich Kilmer, Jim Weirich and

others.

> # All rights reserved. > # See LICENSE.txt for permissions. > #++

> require 'rubygems' > Gem.manage_gems

> required_version = Gem::Version::Requirement.new(">= 1.8.0") > unless

required_version.satisfied_by?(Gem::Version.new(RUBY_VERSION))

> puts "Expected Ruby Version #{required_version}, was > #{RUBY_VERSION}" > exit(1) > end

> # We need to preserve the original ARGV to use for passing gem

options

> # to source gems. If there is a -- in the line, strip all options > after > # it...its for the source building process. > args = !ARGV.include?("--") ? ARGV.clone :

ARGV[0...ARGV.index("--")]