OK, I'll do that. In my humble opinion, we need to stop providing installation instructions at all. We have too much to do to catch up with all the niceties of rubygems, bundler or rvm to be complete and think of all the corner cases.
Also, on rubyforge you can grab a zip of buildr + jruby that is a one-stop-shop to use buildr :) Antoine On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 22:46, Ilya Pyatigorskiy <[email protected]> wrote: > don't do this: > "gem update --system" > then it should work. I.e. uninstall ruby, install it agan, but don't do > update for gems - it installs somewhat incompatible version of something. > > Antonie, maybe you should update the install page for windows? > > Ilya > > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Olivier Lefevre <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I installedbuildr 1.4.6 on ruby 1.8.7 (Windows) with > > > > gem update --system > > gem install buildr --platform mswin32 > > > > It seemed to go well, I can see buildr 1.4.6 in the list > > of local gems but 'buildr -v' throws: > > > > c:/ruby/187/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency.rb:247:in > > `to_specs': Could not find buildr (>= 0) amongst [atoulme-Antwrap-0.7.1, > > builder-2.1.2, buildr-1.4.6-x86-mswin32, diff-lcs-1.1.2, highline-1.5.1, > > hoe-2.3.3, json_pure-1.4.3, minitar-0.5.3, net-sftp-2.0.4, > net-ssh-2.0.23, > > rake-0.8.7, rjb-1.3.2-x86-mswin32-0, rspec-2.1.0, rspec-core-2.1.0, > > rspec-expectations-2.1.0, rspec-mocks-2.1.0, rubyforge-2.0.3, > > rubygems-update-1.8.5, rubyzip-0.9.4, xml-simple-1.0.12] (Gem::LoadError) > > from > > c:/ruby/187/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency.rb:256:in > `to_spec' > > from c:/ruby/187/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:1182:in `gem' > > from c:/ruby/187/bin/buildr:18 > > > > Moreover every time I rerun the 2nd install command it > > reinstalls the docs, which seems rather senseless: > > > > Successfully installed buildr-1.4.6-x86-mswin32 > > 1 gem installed > > Installing ri documentation for buildr-1.4.6-x86-mswin32... > > Installing RDoc documentation for buildr-1.4.6-x86-mswin32... > > > > > > Any idea? > > > > -- O.L. > > >
