On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Walter Lee Davis <wa...@wdstudio.com>wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Dandy wrote: > > > $ sudo gem update --systemERROR: While executing gem ... > > (RuntimeError) gem update --system is disabled on Debian, because > > it will overwrite the content of the rubygems Debian package, and > > might break your Debian system in subtle ways. The Debian-supported > > way to update rubygems is through apt-get, using Debian official > > repositories.If you really know what you are doing, you can still > > update rubygems by setting the REALLY_GEM_UPDATE_SYSTEM environment > > variable, but please remember that this is completely unsupported by > > Debian. > > Wow. How much control do you have over this server? Can you remove the > Debian gem package and re-install gem from source? My sysadmin skills are > limited to Mac OS X Server, Solaris, and Ubuntu, so I don't have any more > specific advice for you there. If you can, I would take everything off -- > gem, Ruby, everything except the build tools basically. Then use the RVM > installer to install Ruby and gem in one go. Here's my (Ubuntu) recipe for > that (do all of this as root): > > aptitude safe-upgrade > aptitude update > aptitude install build-essential openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev > curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-0 > libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev > ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion libcurl4-openssl-dev apache2 > apache2-dev apache2-prefork-dev libapr1-dev libaprutil1-dev mysql-server > mysql-dev > (preceding should be all one line, naturally) > > bash < <(curl -sk > https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer) > > log out and back in > > rvm install 1.9.2 > rvm default 1.9.2 > > gem update --system > gem install passenger > (follow instructions from the installer) > > passenger-install-apache2-module > (follow instructions from the installer) > > If you don't have aptitude, you can substitute apt-get for it where noted > above, I have used them interchangeably in the past. > I second the suggestion to use RVM instead of the debian packages for ruby and rubygems. I've generally found the packages to be problematic with a lot of newer gems. I read a while ago that the people who maintain the Debian ruby packages are essentially unsupported and few in number, so updates to those packages are very infrequent. I think they basically said not to expect a Debian package for 1.9.2 anytime soon. > > Walter > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
