Gem (Ruby) Help!

[FanIn80]

I can't seem to do a system update for some reason. It gives me a version error whenever I run 'sudo gem update --system' ... yet, gem update works fine. It's driving me nuts!

[Hack&Lube]

Sorry I can't help you but that's some nice wallpaper. What resolution is it? Can we get a link?

[Rathji]

Ok, so the problem as I see it, is that little thing shaped like some sort of fruit in the upper left hand corner of the screen.

[photon]

We can also see your last name, might want to blurr that.

Looks basically like a null pointer exception in Java, whatever is doing the updating is getting back a null reference then trying to check the version of whatever it is.

Looks like a path error or maybe permissions, wherever it's trying to find the Gems is either the wrong place or it doesn't have permissions to do whatever it is trying to do.

[Jbo]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Sorry I can't help you but that's some nice wallpaper. What resolution is it? Can we get a link?

this

[FanIn80]

Originally Posted by photon

We can also see your last name, might want to blurr that.

Whoops, good call.

I seem to have fixed the issue. I just installed and ran a specific update gem, and it seems to have taken care of the rest. I can now update my system gem again! I think the whole issue stems from OSX coming with ruby and rails pre-installed out of the box, but me installing newer versions in my /usr/local/bin instead of the system default /usr/bin. From what I understand, local is the better way to go though.

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Sorry I can't help you but that's some nice wallpaper. What resolution is it? Can we get a link?

http://www3.telus.net/kblovett/2002_..._2560x1440.jpg

Edit: I tried to zip up my entire wallpaper folder, but it comes out to just over 250MB compressed. I have about 80 wallpapers of various nature and city scenes, and they are all 2560x1440 resolution. It's a shame I can't upload them somewhere. Most people just give me a usb stick to dump them on. Mind you, I'm sure I could find a place online to store them... I wonder how Dropbox is for that kind of stuff...

[ZedMan]

I've found the easiest way is to leave the system ruby alone and use rvm to handle different rubies. Works like a charm.

[FanIn80]

Yeah I installed that earlier and started messing around with it a bit.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

Whoops, good call.

I seem to have fixed the issue. I just installed and ran a specific update gem, and it seems to have taken care of the rest. I can now update my system gem again! I think the whole issue stems from OSX coming with ruby and rails pre-installed out of the box, but me installing newer versions in my /usr/local/bin instead of the system default /usr/bin. From what I understand, local is the better way to go though.



http://www3.telus.net/kblovett/2002_..._2560x1440.jpg

Edit: I tried to zip up my entire wallpaper folder, but it comes out to just over 250MB compressed. I have about 80 wallpapers of various nature and city scenes, and they are all 2560x1440 resolution. It's a shame I can't upload them somewhere. Most people just give me a usb stick to dump them on. Mind you, I'm sure I could find a place online to store them... I wonder how Dropbox is for that kind of stuff...

That is how I do all my sharing of stuff like that. So simple just to toss in the public folder and send a link.

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