https://holyarmy.org/tags/gem/ Recent content in Gem on Holyarmy.org Hugo en-US Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:38:40 +0000 https://holyarmy.org/2009/03/updating-rubygems-on-mac-os-x-105-leopard/ Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:38:40 +0000 https://holyarmy.org/2009/03/updating-rubygems-on-mac-os-x-105-leopard/ <p>I’m just posting a simple tip today.</p> <p>I was wanting to play around with the very cool <a href="http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com/docs/rdoc/classes/Sass.html">SASS meta-language</a> using <a href="http://wiki.github.com/chriseppstein/compass">Compass</a>. The language and tool are implemented in Ruby, which is pre-installed on OS X, but as I discovered, I needed a newer version of RubyGems.</p> <p>I had already known I needed to update Gems, so I was doing the following:</p> <pre style="padding-left: 30px">$ sudo gem update</pre> <p>Eventually I got errors like this:</p> <pre style="padding-left: 30px">Updating installed gems... Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.github.com/ Attempting remote update of RedCloth ERROR:  Error installing RedCloth:     RedCloth requires RubyGems version &gt;= 1.2 Attempting remote update of capistrano ERROR:  Error installing capistrano:     capistrano requires RubyGems version &gt;= 1.2 Attempting remote update of net-sftp ERROR:  Error installing net-sftp:     net-sftp requires RubyGems version &gt;= 1.2 Attempting remote update of net-ssh ERROR:  Error installing net-ssh:     net-ssh requires RubyGems version &gt;= 1.2 Gems updated: RedCloth, capistrano, net-sftp, net-ssh</pre> <p>Turns out, to update RubyGems, one must update the gem <em>system!</em></p>