What changed? (gem command missing in 1.9)

[Stanislav Sedov]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:55:06 -0700
"Aaron D. Gifford" <astounding at gmail.com> mentioned:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been using RUBY_DEFAULT_VER=1.9 in my /etc/make.conf for months
> now successfully to ensure that gem, ri, irb, ruby, etc. were
> correctly symlinked in /usr/local/bin/ to the *19 commands.  However
> today upon building the /usr/ports/lang/ruby19 port and installing it
> afresh, I discovered that the other *19 commands are there EXCEPT for
> the gem command:
> 
> user at host:/usr/local/bin$ ls -ld *19
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  4401 Nov 11 14:48 erb19
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   322 Nov 11 14:48 irb19
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   701 Nov 11 14:48 rdoc19
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    77 Nov 11 14:48 ri19
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  5448 Nov 11 14:48 ruby19
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   251 Nov 11 14:48 testrb19
> user at host:/usr/local/bin$ ls -l erb irb rdoc ri ruby testrb gem
> ls: gem: No such file or directory
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  4401 Nov 11 14:48 erb
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   322 Nov 11 14:48 irb
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   701 Nov 11 14:48 rdoc
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    77 Nov 11 14:48 ri
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  5448 Nov 11 14:48 ruby
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   251 Nov 11 14:48 testrb
> 
> What happened?  What changed?  Where did the gem command go? Is there
> a new environment variable I need while building the port now?
> 

Hi!

The gem version distributed in ruby 1.9 is too old for some ports,
so FreeBSD uses the rubygem from ports instead.  To get the gem
command back just install the ruby-gems port.

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Stanislav Sedov
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