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Mathias
Mathias

Reputation: 41

Gem Does Nothing

I guess I messed things up a little bit:

I wanted to play around with Ruby on Rails a little bit. I installed it a year ago but never used it. Till now.

Because of some problem a ran into I wanted to start from beginning with a fresh install. I uninstalled the Rails gems (3.0.7 and 3.1.1) and followed this guide for a fresh install: http://eddorre.com/posts/rails-ultimate-install-guide-on-os-x-snow-leopard-using-rvm-homebrew-and-passenger

But now gem does nothing - when I type gem install bundle in my terminal the cursor goes straight to the next line. Even gem list or gem --help doesn't work. I get no error messages.

I have no clue what happened. Some thoughts?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2394

Answers (3)

sameera207
sameera207

Reputation: 16629

Please run this command in your console:

gem env

This command will return your gem environment, and one more correction: I guess it should be 'gem install bundler' not 'gem install bundle'.

Upvotes: 1

fuzzyalej
fuzzyalej

Reputation: 5973

I'll do a full reinstall of rvm:

rvm implode

and start again:

bash <<(curl -s https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/install/rvm)

If you try to recover the existing environment, there are some options to rvm that can be useful:

debug - show info plus additional information for common issues

upgrade - Lets you upgrade from one version of a ruby to another, including migrating your gemsets semi-automatically.

cleanup - Lets you remove stale source folders / archives and other miscellaneous data associated with rvm. repair - Lets you repair parts of your environment e.g. wrappers, env files and and similar files (e.g. general maintenance).

Upvotes: 2

jdl
jdl

Reputation: 17790

Since you're trying to start over anyway, I would highly recommend that you use RVM. Do the "single user install" and these gem problems should disappear entirely. Then if you get a specific error message, post that so we have something to go on.

Upvotes: 1

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