sudden problems with gem

[Simon Schuster]

I believe it's in response to trying to consolidate where gems are
kept. (why ARE there so many directories used for this? the difference
between say /var/lib/gems, /usr/lib/ruby/1.8,
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems seems a little flattened... but I'm kind
of new to all this.)

so this is what I get:

$ gem
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`gem_original_require': no such file to load -- sources (LoadError)
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`require'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_info_cache.rb:6
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`gem_original_require'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`require'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:12
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`gem_original_require'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`require'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:112:in `manage_gems'
from /usr/bin/gem:10

 

[Eric Hodel]

I believe it's in response to trying to consolidate where gems are
kept. (why ARE there so many directories used for this? the difference
between say /var/lib/gems, /usr/lib/ruby/1.8,
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems seems a little flattened... but I'm kind
of new to all this.)

It sounds like you installed RubyGems twice, or with two different
ruby interpreters. Remove both gem directories then reinstall
RubyGems without any options.