(I thought I sent this earlier but it didn't go through...excuse me if this is a duplicate). Our release manager for RubyGems 0.8.0 (me, in fact) somehow didn't grab all of the 0.8.0-tagged files in CVS when 0.8.0 was released, so we missed some windows-related bug fixes that were done just prior to release. This is the cause of the errors that some Windows users have reported. So, we give you: RubyGems 0.8.1 Get it here: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126 or $ gem install rubygems-update $ update_rubygems Thanks for all of the feedback and testing so far on this release! We've already gotten some good patches and a lot of great suggestions! Keep those gems coming. Chad On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 00:44:55 +0900, James Britt <jamesunderbarb / neurogami.com> wrote: > Chad Fowler wrote: > > > Thanks. We've had several reports of similar things on Windows (and > > gotten quite a bit of data from some of them). We'll have a look and > > release a patch as soon as we've got a fix. > > > > Chad > > > > > Here's a another data point, from my win2k box: > > Successfully built RubyGem > Name: sources > Version: 0.0.1 > File: sources-0.0.1.gem > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/installer.rb:139:in > `generate_bin_scripts': You don't have write permissions into the c:/bin > directory. ( > Gem::FilePermissionError) > from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/installer.rb:69:in > `install' > from install.rb:144:in `install_rb' > from install.rb:148 > > > My Ruby instance lives n c:\ruby. > ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-mswin32] > > gems uninstall rubygems-update > fails, too. > > James > >