Ubuntu
libgems-ruby package

  1. Bug #634137
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chocolateboy (chocolateboy) wrote : RubyGems1.9 (1.3.5) is broken/unsupported on Ruby 1.9.0

From http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=575&aid=28551&group_id=126

    RubyGems is not supported on Ruby 1.9.0.

    Ruby 1.9.0 is not a production-ready release.

    You will need to upgrade your ruby.

Note there are several other showstopping RubyGems 1.3.5 bugs on Ruby 1.9.0 in the SourceForge tracker. It's fundamentally broken and the RubyGems maintainers a) don't support 1.9.0 and b) clearly deprecate its use in Debian and Ubuntu on the grounds that it's not production ready.

This looks to have been fixed in Maverick (which is currently using Ruby 1.9.1), but on Lucid we're stuck with a broken RubyGems and a broken Ruby, neither of which are obvious until you take the (in my case considerable) time to file a RubyGems/Ruby bug.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: rubygems1.9 1.3.5-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.42-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 9 16:22:28 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: libgems-ruby