Windows-based Ruby install with Rubygems interfering with cygwin ruby?
I had a problem with a windows-based install of Ruby with RubyGems kept
screwing up my cygwin-based installation of Ruby. Seems this is a
‘well-known’ problem in the Ruby community. The symptons look like this
$ irb
/usr/bin/ruby: no such file to load — ubygems (LoadError)
Really annoying. To fix this unset the RUBYOPT environment variable in
your cygwin shell’s setting. The manual way to do this in bash is
shown:
$ unset RUBYOPT
$ irb
irb(main):001:0>
Scott L Holmes
February 5, 2006 @ 11:45 am
Thanks for the information on Cygwin Ruby. This was mildly driving me crazy. I’m putting together the language bindings for Ruby and Redland librdf and not knowing what I was doing I couldn’t put my finger on it. Talk about flow. The flow of this problem was to work and work and work and work and then finally, you get the Aha – Google Keywords Nivarna!
Given any thought to how Google may be accelerating the evolution of homosapien?
Geoff
December 23, 2006 @ 12:56 am
I was able to fix this by installing gems from the cygwin command line.