On Dec 7, 2008, at 11:23 , cdubd wrote:
> On Nov 11, 3:41 pm, Dru <
dru.re...@...> wrote:
>> On Nov 7, 9:27 pm, Kenneth McDonald
>> <
kenneth.m.mcdon...@...>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> When I try to execute 'sudo gem cleanup' on OS X 10.5, I get the
>>> message:
>>
>>> Attempting to uninstall rails-1.2.6
>>> ERROR: While executing gem . . . (Gem:InstallError)
>>> Unknown gem rails = 1.2.6
>>
>>> How can I fix this so gem cleanup will continue to completion?
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ken
>>
>> I've been having this problem as well and I thought I was the only
>> one! I get exactly the same error on my iMac running osx 10.5.5, I've
>> also got xcode 3.1.1 installed in case it matters, although I should
>> mention that I'm getting this problem after a clean install of my
>> system too.
>>
>> Any help is much appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> I am also having exactly the same problem. No solution yet.
the solution is to ignore it. those gems are installed by apple as
"system" gems. They stay when you run cleanup. the real error is how
ugly and uninformative it is about it, but apple didn't provide those
patches :)
we'll get to it sooner or later. (guess which one)
