I'm switching over to using RubyGems. I like it! When I removed the "normal" Rake install and typed "gem --remote-install rake", it succeeded with the message "Successfully installed rake version 0.3.1". It took me a while to find the "rake" executable, though. It used to go in /usr/local/bin/rake, but it looks like it is now in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9/rake-0.3.1/lib/rake. Do all executables installed by gems go in the gem directory instead of /usr/local? If so, I would like to suggest that gems put their executables in /usr/local/ instead, so that users don't have to modify their paths by adding a new directory each time they install a new gem. Jim -- Jim Menard, jimm / io.com, http://www.io.com/~jimm/ "Anyone else picturing Wallace sitting in front of a Rube Goldburgesque workstation, accidentally booting up Netscape and crying out, 'It's the wrong browser, Grommit!' ?" -- Jim Evans in rec.humor.oracle.d