On Dec 26, 2006, at 21:20, Jim Freeze wrote:
> Should I be getting an error when installing a gem on
> a machine that irb is not installed on?
Yes. Rubygems requires all of ruby to be installed.
> It appears that the install completes, but during the doc install,
> gem crashes when irb is not installed.
>
> /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:35:in `require':
> No such file to load -- irb/slex (LoadError)
> from /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/doc_manager.rb:71:in
> `load_rdoc'
RDoc depends on irb.
$ cat -n lib/rubygems/doc_manager.rb | grep 71
71 require 'rdoc/rdoc'
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Eric Hodel - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://blog.segment7.net
I LIT YOUR GEM ON FIRE!
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