# Rails: gem install rails is bombing **URL:** \ **Category:** ruby-talk\ **Created:** [4 November 2004 03:33 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rails-gem-install-rails-is-bombing/14584 "2004-11-04T03:33:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![J\_D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@J\_D](https://rubytalk.org/u/J_D)\ **Post date:** [4 November 2004 03:33 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rails-gem-install-rails-is-bombing/14584/1 "2004-11-04T03:33:45Z")
Hi, I'm running into a problem installing rails using gem. How do I fix this? debian:/usr/local/src# ruby --version ruby 1.8.2 (2004-08-24) [i386-linux] debian:/usr/local/src# gem install rails Attempting local installation of 'rails' Local gem file not found: rails\*.gem Attempting remote installation of 'rails' Successfully installed rails, version 0.8.0 /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath\_manager.rb:5:in `require\_\_': No such file to load -- rdoc/rdoc (LoadError)          from /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath\_manager.rb:5:in `require'          from /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/doc\_manager.rb:42:in `generate\_rdoc'          from /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem\_commands.rb:167:in `execute'          from /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem\_commands.rb:166:in `each'          from /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem\_commands.rb:166:in `execute'          from /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command.rb:49:in `invoke'          from /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd\_manager.rb:90:in `process\_args'          from /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd\_manager.rb:63:in `run'          from /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem\_runner.rb:9:in `run'          from /usr/bin/gem:11 ---
**Author:** ![David\_Heinemeier\_Ha2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/fbc32d/32.png) [@David\_Heinemeier\_Ha2](https://rubytalk.org/u/David_Heinemeier_Ha2)\ **Post date:** [4 November 2004 07:18 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rails-gem-install-rails-is-bombing/14584/2 "2004-11-04T07:18:30Z")
> I'm running into a problem installing rails using gem. How do I fix this? You don't have RDoc installed. Debian has chopped off Ruby into tiny packages. Have a look at [Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.](http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/RailsOnDebian) for help. > **···** > > -- > David Heinemeier Hansson, > [http://www.basecamphq.com/](http://www.basecamphq.com/) -- Web-based Project Management > [http://www.rubyonrails.org/](http://www.rubyonrails.org/) -- Web-application framework for Ruby > [http://macromates.com/](http://macromates.com/) -- TextMate: Code and markup editor (OS X) > [http://www.loudthinking.com/](http://www.loudthinking.com/) -- Broadcasting Brain ---
**Author:** ![Ara.T.Howard6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/958977/32.png) [@Ara.T.Howard6](https://rubytalk.org/u/Ara.T.Howard6)\ **Post date:** [4 November 2004 14:43 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rails-gem-install-rails-is-bombing/14584/3 "2004-11-04T14:43:44Z")
i'm thinking of switching to debian but am kind of a tar.gz kind of package guy and don't like the sound of that at all... can any of you ruby/debian people give any information on debian as a ruby development platform? cheers. -a > **···** > > On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote: > > > > I'm running into a problem installing rails using gem. How do I fix > > > this? > > > > You don't have RDoc installed. Debian has chopped off Ruby into tiny > > packages. Have a look at [Ruby on Rails: Compress the complexity of modern web apps](http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/RailsOnDebian) for > > help. > > # -- > > > EMAIL :: Ara [dot] T [dot] Howard [at] noaa [dot] gov > > PHONE :: 303.497.6469 > > When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good > > bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. --Shunryu Suzuki > > =============================================================================== ---
**Author:** ![Jamis\_Buck4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@Jamis\_Buck4](https://rubytalk.org/u/Jamis_Buck4)\ **Post date:** [4 November 2004 15:09 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rails-gem-install-rails-is-bombing/14584/4 "2004-11-04T15:09:20Z")
If tar.gz's are your thing, Ara, you might enjoy Gentoo ([http://www.gentoo.org](http://www.gentoo.org)) as well. I've found my gentoo install to be quite capable as a ruby development platform. - Jamis > **···** > > Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote: > > > > > > I'm running into a problem installing rails using gem. How do I fix > > > > this? > > > > > > You don't have RDoc installed. Debian has chopped off Ruby into tiny > > > packages. Have a look at [Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.](http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/RailsOnDebian) for > > > help. > > > > i'm thinking of switching to debian but am kind of a tar.gz kind of package > > guy and don't like the sound of that at all... can any of you ruby/debian > > people give any information on debian as a ruby development platform? > > -- > Jamis Buck > jgb3@email.byu.edu > [http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis](http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis) ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_Weirich1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@Jim\_Weirich1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Jim_Weirich1)\ **Post date:** [4 November 2004 16:08 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rails-gem-install-rails-is-bombing/14584/5 "2004-11-04T16:08:46Z")
Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov said: > **···** > > > On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote: > > > > > > I'm running into a problem installing rails using gem. How do I fix > > > > this? > > > > > > You don't have RDoc installed. Debian has chopped off Ruby into tiny > > > packages. Have a look at [Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.](http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/RailsOnDebian) > > > for help. > > > > i'm thinking of switching to debian but am kind of a tar.gz kind of > > package > > guy and don't like the sound of that at all... can any of you ruby/debian > > people give any information on debian as a ruby development platform? > > I use Debian for my major Ruby development. I like the platform, > especially the easy upgrading. However, I compile and build Ruby from > source. The Debian package pipeline is quite long, and I like my Ruby a > litter more current than what they offer. > > -- > -- Jim Weirich jim@weirichhouse.org [http://onestepback.org](http://onestepback.org) > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, > not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas) ---
**Author:** ![Ara.T.Howard6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/958977/32.png) [@Ara.T.Howard6](https://rubytalk.org/u/Ara.T.Howard6)\ **Post date:** [4 November 2004 15:53 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rails-gem-install-rails-is-bombing/14584/6 "2004-11-04T15:53:44Z")
you are the second person to mention gentoo this week - i'll check it out. cheers. -a > **···** > > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Jamis Buck wrote: > > > Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm running into a problem installing rails using gem. How do I fix > > > > > this? > > > > > > > > You don't have RDoc installed. Debian has chopped off Ruby into tiny > > > > packages. Have a look at [Ruby on Rails: Compress the complexity of modern web apps](http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/RailsOnDebian) > > > > for > > > > help. > > > > > > i'm thinking of switching to debian but am kind of a tar.gz kind of package > > > guy and don't like the sound of that at all... can any of you ruby/debian > > > people give any information on debian as a ruby development platform? > > > > If tar.gz's are your thing, Ara, you might enjoy Gentoo > > ([http://www.gentoo.org](http://www.gentoo.org)) as well. I've found my gentoo install to be > > quite capable as a ruby development platform. > > # -- > > > EMAIL :: Ara [dot] T [dot] Howard [at] noaa [dot] gov > > PHONE :: 303.497.6469 > > When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good > > bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. --Shunryu Suzuki > > =============================================================================== ---
**Author:** ![Tobias\_Luetke1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19adc/32.png) [@Tobias\_Luetke1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Tobias_Luetke1)\ **Post date:** [4 November 2004 17:12 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rails-gem-install-rails-is-bombing/14584/7 "2004-11-04T17:12:57Z")
Consider me the thrid, gentoo would be the right choice. > **···** > > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 00:53:44 +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov \ wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Jamis Buck wrote: > > > > \> Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote: > > \>\> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote: > > \>\> > > \>\>\>\> I'm running into a problem installing rails using gem. How do I fix > > \>\>\>\> this? > > \>\>\> > > \>\>\> > > \>\>\> You don't have RDoc installed. Debian has chopped off Ruby into tiny > > \>\>\> packages. Have a look at [Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.](http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/RailsOnDebian) > > \>\>\> for > > \>\>\> help. > > \>\> > > \>\> > > \>\> i'm thinking of switching to debian but am kind of a tar.gz kind of package > > \>\> guy and don't like the sound of that at all... can any of you ruby/debian > > \>\> people give any information on debian as a ruby development platform? > > \> > > \> If tar.gz's are your thing, Ara, you might enjoy Gentoo > > \> ([http://www.gentoo.org](http://www.gentoo.org)) as well. I've found my gentoo install to be > > \> quite capable as a ruby development platform. > > > > you are the second person to mention gentoo this week - i'll check it out. > > > > cheers. > > > > # -a -- > > > > # \> EMAIL :: Ara [dot] T [dot] Howard [at] noaa [dot] gov \> PHONE :: 303.497.6469 \> When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good \> bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. --Shunryu Suzuki > > -- > Tobi ---
**Author:** ![Jason\_Sweat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/53a042/32.png) [@Jason\_Sweat](https://rubytalk.org/u/Jason_Sweat)\ **Post date:** [4 November 2004 17:25 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rails-gem-install-rails-is-bombing/14584/8 "2004-11-04T17:25:48Z")
I dearly love Gentoo as a distro, but I did have one issue with the ebuild scripts for ruby. I had to manually add the --enable-install-doc option to the default portage ebuild script for ruby-1.8.2\_pre2 in order to get ri to work correctly. I suggested to the maintainer of the portage script to add a "doc" USE flag to control this. Did anyone else have the same issue I did? Is there a more clever way around this? Thanks, Regards, Jason > **···** > > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 02:12:57 +0900, Tobias Luetke \ wrote: > > > Consider me the thrid, gentoo would be the right choice. > > -- > [http://blog.casey-sweat.us/](http://blog.casey-sweat.us/) ---
**Author:** ![Jamis\_Buck4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@Jamis\_Buck4](https://rubytalk.org/u/Jamis_Buck4)\ **Post date:** [4 November 2004 17:39 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rails-gem-install-rails-is-bombing/14584/9 "2004-11-04T17:39:49Z")
Jason Sweat wrote: > > Consider me the thrid, gentoo would be the right choice. > > I dearly love Gentoo as a distro, but I did have one issue with the > ebuild scripts for ruby. I had to manually add the --enable-install-doc option to the default portage ebuild script for > ruby-1.8.2\_pre2 in order to get ri to work correctly. I suggested to > the maintainer of the portage script to add a "doc" USE flag to > control this. > > Did anyone else have the same issue I did? Is there a more clever way > around this? > > Thanks, > > Regards, > > Jason Jason, It looks like this works now--I have the doc USE flag set, and it went and built all the ri stuff (and I mean ALL the ri stuff). However...don't know if this is a gentoo problem or a Jamis problem, but ri is now broken for me. If I do (for example) "ri Array", I only get a handful of methods shown to me (abbrev, is\_complex\_yaml?, pretty\_print, pretty\_print\_cycle, quote, to\_yaml, to\_yaml\_type). Anyone else seen this? Is there a way to fix this so I can use ri again? Please? - Jamis > **···** > > > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 02:12:57 +0900, Tobias Luetke \> \ wrote: > > -- > Jamis Buck > jgb3@email.byu.edu > [http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis](http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis) ---
**Author:** ![Jason\_Sweat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/53a042/32.png) [@Jason\_Sweat](https://rubytalk.org/u/Jason_Sweat)\ **Post date:** [4 November 2004 18:01 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rails-gem-install-rails-is-bombing/14584/10 "2004-11-04T18:01:02Z")
Here is what my "ri Array" command returns, is that more or less than you expected?: ----------------------------------------------------------- Class: Array      Arrays are ordered, integer-indexed collections of any object.      Array indexing starts at 0, as in C or Java. A negative index is      assumed to be relative to the end of the array---that is, an index      of -1 indicates the last element of the array, -2 is the next to      last element in the array, and so on. > **···** > > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 02:39:49 +0900, Jamis Buck \ wrote: > > > Jason, > > > > It looks like this works now--I have the doc USE flag set, and it went > > and built all the ri stuff (and I mean ALL the ri stuff). > > > > However...don't know if this is a gentoo problem or a Jamis problem, but > > ri is now broken for me. If I do (for example) "ri Array", I only get a > > handful of methods shown to me (abbrev, is\_complex\_yaml?, pretty\_print, > > pretty\_print\_cycle, quote, to\_yaml, to\_yaml\_type). Anyone else seen > > this? Is there a way to fix this so I can use ri again? Please? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Includes: > --------- >      Enumerable(all?, any?, collect, detect, each\_with\_index, entries, >      find, find\_all, grep, include?, inject, map, max, member?, min, >      partition, reject, select, sort, sort\_by, to\_a, to\_set, zip) > > Class methods: > -------------- >      , new > > Instance methods: > ----------------- >      &, \*, +, -, \<\<, \<=\>, ==, , =, abbrev, assoc, at, clear, >      collect, collect!, compact, compact!, concat, delete, delete\_at, >      delete\_if, each, each\_index, empty?, eql?, fetch, fill, first, >      flatten, flatten!, frozen?, hash, include?, index, indexes, >      indices, initialize\_copy, insert, inspect, join, last, length, map, >      map!, nitems, pack, pop, push, rassoc, reject, reject!, replace, >      reverse, reverse!, reverse\_each, rindex, select, shift, size, >      slice, slice!, sort, sort!, to\_a, to\_ary, to\_s, transpose, uniq, >      uniq!, unshift, values\_at, zip, | > > Regards, > Jason > -- > [http://blog.casey-sweat.us/](http://blog.casey-sweat.us/) ---
**Author:** ![Jamis\_Buck4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@Jamis\_Buck4](https://rubytalk.org/u/Jamis_Buck4)\ **Post date:** [4 November 2004 18:05 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rails-gem-install-rails-is-bombing/14584/11 "2004-11-04T18:05:36Z")
Jason Sweat wrote: > **···** > > > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 02:39:49 +0900, Jamis Buck \ wrote: > > > > > Jason, > > > > > > It looks like this works now--I have the doc USE flag set, and it went > > > and built all the ri stuff (and I mean ALL the ri stuff). > > > > > > However...don't know if this is a gentoo problem or a Jamis problem, but > > > ri is now broken for me. If I do (for example) "ri Array", I only get a > > > handful of methods shown to me (abbrev, is\_complex\_yaml?, pretty\_print, > > > pretty\_print\_cycle, quote, to\_yaml, to\_yaml\_type). Anyone else seen > > > this? Is there a way to fix this so I can use ri again? Please? > > > > Here is what my "ri Array" command returns, is that more or less than > > you expected?: > > [snip] > > That is the minimum that I expected. (It's what ri used to return until I recompiled ruby with the doc USE flag enabled.) > > Here's the complete output from "ri18 Array" that I'm seeing: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- Class: Array >       Sequences: Array#to\_yaml > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Instance methods: > ----------------- >       abbrev, is\_complex\_yaml?, pretty\_print, pretty\_print\_cycle, quote, >       to\_yaml, to\_yaml\_type > > And, for Object: > > ---------------------------------------------------------- Class: Object >       (no description...) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Includes: > --------- >       PP::ObjectMixin(pretty\_print, pretty\_print\_cycle, >       pretty\_print\_inspect, pretty\_print\_instance\_variables) > > Instance methods: > ----------------- >       is\_complex\_yaml?, to\_yaml, to\_yaml\_properties, to\_yaml\_type > > I have no idea what is going on. Has anyone else seen this? > > - Jamis > > -- > Jamis Buck > jgb3@email.byu.edu > [http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis](http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis)