As Shankar Unni says, don't try to install gem for cygwin using the
gem that comes with the Ruby One-Click Installer for Windows. Instead,
get the tarball and install it using the included script. Since
rubygems is pure ruby, you don't have to worry about having a compiler
installed. It should jus
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
gem is not part of the ruby standard package.
And don't try to install a "native" gem from the main ruby site and
download gems using that, or you'll end up with a mishmash of cygwin and
native libraries for ruby. Been there, done that :-).
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On May 14 13:02, Ronald Fischer wrote:
> I installed ruby for cygwin, using the cygwin setup program:
>
> $ ruby --version
> ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [i386-cygwin]
>
>
> To my surprise, this does not install the "gem" command, which is
> normally part of Ruby 1.8.5:
gem is not part
I installed ruby for cygwin, using the cygwin setup program:
$ ruby --version
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [i386-cygwin]
To my surprise, this does not install the "gem" command, which is
normally part of Ruby 1.8.5:
$ which ruby
/usr/bin/ruby
$ ls /usr/bin/gem
ls: cannot access /usr/bi
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