Issue #8482 has been updated by zzak (Zachary Scott). Category changed from platform/linux to lib Status changed from Open to Assigned Assignee changed from cruby-linux to drbrain (Eric Hodel) Priority changed from High to Normal Assigning to Eric, since it wouldn't let me assign it to Jim? ---------------------------------------- Bug #8482: native rake gem has broken path https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8482#change-40399 Author: dknight (Amitav Mohanty) Status: Assigned Priority: Normal Assignee: drbrain (Eric Hodel) Category: lib Target version: ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p0 (2013-02-24 revision 39474) [x86_64-linux] Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN `which rake` has the result /usr/bin/rake but when I try rake it fails with the following error /usr/bin/rake:23:in `load': cannot load such file -- /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-0.9.6/bin/rake (LoadError) from /usr/bin/rake:23:in `<main>' gem list rake shows two versions of rake. *** LOCAL GEMS *** rake (0.9.6, 0.8.7) However, when I run 'gem uninstall rake' it directly uninstalls rake-0.8.7. Rake 0.9.6 is obviously a native packaged gem. The issue is /usr/bin/rake points to the wrong rake. Installing and uninstalling rake 0.9.6 does not fix it. When I was trying to install ruby-debug-ide-0.4.17.beta16, it was failing because it was not able to load rake. Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing ruby-debug-ide: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /usr/bin/ruby mkrf_conf.rb "/usr/bin/ruby" -rubygems /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-0.9.6/bin/rake RUBYARCHDIR=/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/ruby-debug-ide-0.4.17.beta16/lib RUBYLIBDIR=/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/ruby-debug-ide-0.4.17.beta16/lib /usr/bin/ruby: No such file or directory -- /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-0.9.6/bin/rake (LoadError) Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/ruby-debug-ide-0.4.17.beta16 for inspection. Results logged to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/ruby-debug-ide-0.4.17.beta16/ext/gem_make.out Also, strangely enough, /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rake-0.8.7/bin/rake -V returns the following rake, version 0.9.6. -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/