gem headache

[Fero]

hello. please help, i cannot install gem from local .gem file:

gem install rmagick-1.14.1-win32 --local --install-dir c:/TEMP
ERROR: Local gem file not found: rmagick-1.14.1-win32*.gem
ERROR: Could not install a local or remote copy of the gem:
rmagick-1.14.1-win32

but the file IS in specified directory. what should I do? please help.

fero.

 

[Michael P. Soulier]

gem install rmagick-1.14.1-win32 --local --install-dir c:/TEMP
ERROR: Local gem file not found: rmagick-1.14.1-win32*.gem
ERROR: Could not install a local or remote copy of the gem:
rmagick-1.14.1-win32

Can't you just do

gem install <filename>

with the full filename?

Mike

 

[Frantisek Psotka]

Can't you just do

gem install <filename>

with the full filename?

Mike

i have tried it, there is no such file in rubyforge repository. i must
download the .gem an install it localy. but i cant do that. what is
wrong?

 

[Timothy Hunter]

i have tried it, there is no such file in rubyforge repository. i must
download the .gem an install it localy. but i cant do that. what is
wrong?

RMagick-1.14.1_IM-6.3.0-7-Q8.zip is a zip file that contains both the
rmagick-win32 gem and the Windows installer for ImageMagick. Download
the zip file and unzip it into a temporary directory. Use the chdir
command to make the temporary directory your current directory. Run the
ImageMagick-6.3.0-7-Q8-windows-dll.exe command to install ImageMagick.
Then run

gem install rmagick --local

That's it.

All this information is in the README.html file that is included in the
zip file.

 

[Frantisek Psotka]

yes, really thank you. i was confused, because when i explicitely
(--install-dir) type directory, it failed (why?), so i didnt come up on
such trivial solution.