#gem update

[gemcomicplus]

GEM update! Page 58

Read the update HERE or HERE!

Or start from the beginning HERE! Thanks for reading!

[gemcomicplus]

GEM UPDATE!

Sorry for the long wait everyone! I’m hoping to get the update schedule BACK ON TRACK! so expect more regular updates!

Read the new page HERE or HERE. or read from the beginning HERE.

Thanks!

[gemcomicplus]

GEM update! 

READ THE UPDATE HERE! 

This is  two page update so make sure you read both pages! Sorry for the long wait. I’ll try to have more regular updates in the future!

[gemcomicplus]

GEM update!

Read the update here!!! 

lots o dialouge in this one. thanks for reading!

[gemcomicplus]

GEM update!

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Sorry for the long wait! Read the update here!!

[aawaara]

And suddenly I lost all the gems, that I had collected over time!

This isn’t about the material riches obtained over time, but about the shared wealth among the Ruby community ;)

In case you notice that suddenly all your gems vanish from your system, and “gem list” shows none of the gems that you had installed previously, the details below can help you. In retrospect, I remembered that this was a result of gem update —system,that I had executed some time back. It updated rubygems version, as well as the ruby version used by rubygems, and it was a clean slate (I don’t know why they mention that command before installing a gem, in documentation. It can ruin your day!).

So effectively, I had two executables - gem1.8 and gem1.9.1 in my bin directory. The update had made a soft link: /usr/bin/gem -> /usr/bin/gem1.9.1. You can check which executable is being used by doing which gem, and then ls -al <gem path> to get the executable.

$ gem env RubyGems Environment: - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.7 - RUBY VERSION: 1.9.2 (2011-07-09 patchlevel 290) [i686-linux] - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /var/lib/gems/1.9.1 - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/local/bin - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS: - ruby - x86-linux - GEM PATHS: - /var/lib/gems/1.9.1 - /home/amit/.gem/ruby/1.9.1 - GEM CONFIGURATION: - :update_sources => true - :verbose => true - :benchmark => false - :backtrace => false - :bulk_threshold => 1000 - REMOTE SOURCES: - http://rubygems.org/

$ gem1.8 env RubyGems Environment: - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.8.15 - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [i686-linux] - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/ruby1.8 - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/bin - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS: - ruby - x86-linux - GEM PATHS: - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 - /home/amit/.gem/ruby/1.8 - GEM CONFIGURATION: - :update_sources => true - :verbose => true - :benchmark => false - :backtrace => false - :bulk_threshold => 1000 - REMOTE SOURCES: - http://rubygems.org/

The Fix:

Create a soft link for the gem1.8 executable, and everything will be as it was:

rm usr/bin/gem

ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8  /usr/bin/gem

Back to the good old days! I’ll save the rubygems update for some other day, and I dread gem update —system form now on…. :O :O :O