Life is good- poked around on the web some more and found a reference on corrupt source index files. Deleted the old cache and the old gem worked better (didn't croak on a method not found error) but still did not pick up remote server things. Deleted the old gem and the new install worked and picked up everything it should. I am now happy. Thank you for the help. Am getting rid of the pre-installed ruby on my Mac and using my new one now. > > OK, so it's not an outdated one like the 1.6 things still around. I > don't have a Mac to test things out here (I'm running on Ubuntu Linux), > but for me the installation progress works. I downloaded Ruby 1.9.7-p249 > from ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org , compiled and installed it, and after > downloading RubyGems 1.3.6 from http://rubygems.org I ran ruby setup.rb, > everything without any compilation options beside a --prefix to Ruby's > configure since I already have a Ruby installation. > > Sorry I can't help you. Maybe someone with a Mac to test can. :( > > Marvin -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.