This should probably be made to result in a LoadError. Thoughts? > In my case I wasn't trying to load the mojombo-grit gem. The error happened while scanning all the gems. I don't think scanning a broken gem should result in a LoadError.
Aslak > > On 31 Mar 2009, at 09:10, aslak hellesoy wrote: > > > > 2009/3/31 Dominic Sisneros <[email protected]> > >> I did a gem cleanup and since then I have been getting the following error >> whenever I try to use a gem >> > > I had the same problem yesterday, when I upgraded all my gems. It turns > out, this error occurs if you have one broken gem. > My solution: Add a puts statement inside gem_path_searcher.rb to find out > what gem is broken. Then uninstall it. (For me it was the latest > mojombo-grit). > > A better solution would be to patch Rubygems so it doesn't choke just > because you have a broken gem - or at least tell you which one it is. > > >> irb(main):002:0> require 'systemu' >> NoMethodError: undefined method `join' for nil:NilClass >> from >> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_path_searcher.rb:96:in >> `lib_dirs_for' >> from >> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_path_searcher.rb:26:in >> `initialize' >> from >> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_path_searcher.rb:25:in `each' >> from >> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_path_searcher.rb:25:in >> `initialize' >> from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:684:in `new' >> from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:684:in `searcher' >> from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:683:in >> `synchronize' >> from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:683:in `searcher' >> from >> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:34:in `require' >> from (irb):2 >> irb(main):003:0> require 'rails' >> NoMethodError: undefined method `join' for nil:NilClass >> from >> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_path_searcher.rb:96:in >> `lib_dirs_for' >> from >> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_path_searcher.rb:26:in >> `initialize' >> from >> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_path_searcher.rb:25:in `each' >> from >> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_path_searcher.rb:25:in >> `initialize' >> >> >> Heres my gem env >> >> $ gem env >> RubyGems Environment: >> - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.1 >> - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-mswin32] >> - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 >> - RUBY EXECUTABLE: c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe >> - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: c:/ruby/bin >> - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS: >> - ruby >> - x86-mswin32-60 >> - GEM PATHS: >> - c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 >> - c:/Documents and Settings/dominic e sisneros/My >> Documents/.gem/ruby/1.8 >> - GEM CONFIGURATION: >> - :update_sources => true >> - :verbose => true >> - :benchmark => false >> - :backtrace => false >> - :bulk_threshold => 1000 >> - :sources => ["http://gems.rubyforge.org";, " >> http://gems.rubyonrails.org";, "http://gems.github.com/";] >> - REMOTE SOURCES: >> - http://gems.rubyforge.org >> - http://gems.rubyonrails.org >> - http://gems.github.com/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Rubygems-developers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers >> > > > > -- > Aslak (::) > _______________________________________________ > Rubygems-developers mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rubygems-developers mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers >
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