RubyGems error on update: undefined local variable or method `remote_gemspecs'

Posted by Wes in Ruby      4 comments

Nov
23

I updated rubygems:

>sudo gem update --system
Password:
Updating RubyGems
Updating rubygems-update
Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.3.1
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NameError)
    undefined local variable or method `remote_gemspecs' for
   #<gem ::Commands::UpdateCommand:0x14df818>

… but received this error:

undefined local variable or method `remote_gemspecs'

Reading the release notes prompted me to install the rubygems-update gem separately:

>sudo gem install rubygems-update
Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.3.1

Finally, run the update_rubygems command to actually update:

>sudo update_rubygems
Installing RubyGems 1.3.1
mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
install -c -m 0644 rbconfig/datadir.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rbconfig/datadir.rb
.... more installation

> gem -v
1.3.1

Finally!

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4 Comments to “RubyGems error on update: undefined local variable or method `remote_gemspecs'”

• December 4, 2008 at 11:54 pm
  Joe H says:

  Just what I needed. Thanks!
• December 11, 2008 at 4:04 am
  Peter says:

  thanks a lot!
• January 28, 2009 at 8:41 pm
  Dan S says:

  Just an fyi: I needed to do:

  >sudo update_rubygems

  instead of:

  >update_rubygems

  as you had it.

  Otherwise, perfect! :-)
• January 28, 2009 at 9:05 pm
  wes says:

  Oh, good call. I updated the post appropriately.