Ruby Gems Not Installing, Hangs While Getting Gems

Question

I recently cleared out all of my ruby install and installed form sources using the instructions at hivelogic

I have have been able to install a few gems, but most of the time, "sudo gem install rails" hangs. I've added the -V flag, and it just seems to hang, I don't get any error. And the process can not be killed. I can only reboot to kill the process.

My ruby info:

[tim@ ~]# ruby -v ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i686-darwin10.2.0] [tim@ ~]# gem -v 1.3.6 [tim@ ~]# gem environment RubyGems Environment:   - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.6   - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i686-darwin10.2.0]   - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8   - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/local/bin/ruby   - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/local/bin   - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:     - ruby     - x86-darwin-10   - GEM PATHS:      - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8      - /Users/tim/.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.rubyforge.org"]   - REMOTE SOURCES:      - http://gems.rubyforge.org/      - http://gems.rubyforge.org [tim@ ~]# which ruby /usr/local/bin/ruby [tim@ ~]# which gem /usr/local/bin/gem [tim@ ~]# uname -a Darwin tim-hoolihans-macbook-pro-15.local 10.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.2.0: Tue Nov  3 10:37:10 PST 2009; root:xnu-1486.2.11~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 [tim@ ~]#  

Any ideas?

Answer:

I built again with the following line and don't have the problem now:

ARCHFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch x86_64' sudo ./configure --enable--shared --enable-pthread CFLAGS=-D_XOPEN_SOURCE=1 

Answer 1

For me

sudo gem install rails -V 

showed that it wasn't hanging, it was just taking a long time.

Answer 2

You probably just need to update your RVM.

Note that it's not really hanging so much as it's just taking 3 minutes to tell you whoops! Should have used sudo.

From this blog post this on command line works:

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby