Updating to gem version 1.3.1 on Ubuntu 8.04

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I see someone else is having problems updating to gem version 1.3.1 on
Ubuntu 8.04. But my problem is different. I've updated OK and in the gem
list --local I see ruby-gems-update 1.3.1 but gem -v still returns
1.2.0. That's what's setup in the environment. So now when I try to do
anything that requires gem version 1.3.1 it doesn't work.

If I try gem update --system it says there's nothing to do, it's all
uptodate.

Any idea what could be wrong? If it's just the environment variable,
where do I set it so that I get the right one after a reboot?

John Small

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John Small wrote:

I see someone else is having problems updating to gem version 1.3.1 on
Ubuntu 8.04. But my problem is different. I've updated OK and in the gem
list --local I see ruby-gems-update 1.3.1 but gem -v still returns
1.2.0. That's what's setup in the environment. So now when I try to do
anything that requires gem version 1.3.1 it doesn't work.

If I try gem update --system it says there's nothing to do, it's all
uptodate.

Any idea what could be wrong? If it's just the environment variable,
where do I set it so that I get the right one after a reboot?

John Small

Sorted! I looked at http://www.rubygems.org/read/chapter/3#page14

and then used the hint to run

gem install rubygems-update
update_rubygems

It all worked fine after that.

John Small

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