I’m off to a well deserved vacation… so I’ll follow your instructions when I get back. In the mean time have a Happy Holiday,

Chris.

A. ‘ruby’ is a pure-ruby platform, used by gems that don’t need or provide specific functionality for each platform, or just ships pre-built extensions for them.

B. When Jesper suggest you try installing mongrel_service by its filename, he meant: donwload the .gem file from rubyforge and *then* try to install it locally.

C. installing mongrel_service with 1.0.0 installed shows some problems, not because rubygems, but due how dependencies to win32-service are indicated in mongrel_service gem. so:

1. downgrade to 0.9.4, following indications posted in this thread my me (in ruby-forum).

2. install mongrel, mongrel_service.

3. upgrade (gem system –upgrade)

4. install rails 2.0.2 gem

5. follow the rename of the mongrel_service-0.3.3-mswin32 folder indicated in my previous blog post.

6. you’re done.

I’ll try to solve mongrel_service issues this weekend. So few days before christmas is a nightmare here at office. Please excuse the troubles.

HTH,

Luis

Anyway, I tried getting mongrel_service via the file name, like you suggested, with and without sources, but I get the same error message each time:

c:\ruby>gem install mongrel_service-0.3.3-mswin32.gem
Updating metadata for 19 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org
……………….
complete
ERROR: could not find mongrel_service-0.3.3-mswin32.gem locally or in a repository

c:\ruby>gem install mongrel_service-0.3.3-mswin32.gem –source http://gems.rubyonrails.org
ERROR: could not find mongrel_service-0.3.3-mswin32.gem locally or in a repository

c:\ruby>gem install mongrel_service-0.3.3-mswin32.gem –source http://gems.rubyforge.org
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
ERROR: could not find mongrel_service-0.3.3-mswin32.gem locally or in a repository

As you can see below, I have the latest RubyGems version, but I’m wondering why I have “ruby” as one of the RubyGems platforms (I’m running on Windows)…

c:\ruby>gem env
RubyGems Environment:
– RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.0.0 (1.0.0)
– RUBY VERSION: 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32]
– INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
– RUBY EXECUTABLE: c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe
– RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
– ruby
– x86-mswin32-60
– GEM PATHS:
– c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
– GEM CONFIGURATION:
– :update_sources => true
– :verbose => true
– :benchmark => false
– :backtrace => false
– :bulk_threshold => 1000
– REMOTE SOURCES:
– http://gems.rubyforge.org

Being in the same time zone really helps…

I tried your solution (how do you find out the name of the latest gems?), first without –source, then with two potential sources, but I still get the same error message:

c:\ruby>gem install mongrel_service-0.3.3-mswin32.gem
Updating metadata for 19 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org
……………….
complete
ERROR: could not find mongrel_service-0.3.3-mswin32.gem locally or in a repository

c:\ruby>gem install mongrel_service-0.3.3-mswin32.gem –source http://gems.rubyonrails.org
ERROR: could not find mongrel_service-0.3.3-mswin32.gem locally or in a repository

c:\ruby>gem install mongrel_service-0.3.3-mswin32.gem –source http://gems.rubyforge.org
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
ERROR: could not find mongrel_service-0.3.3-mswin32.gem locally or in a repository

My Ruby environment is:

c:\ruby>gem env
RubyGems Environment:
– RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.0.0 (1.0.0)
– RUBY VERSION: 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32]
– INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
– RUBY EXECUTABLE: c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe
– RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
– ruby
– x86-mswin32-60
– GEM PATHS:
– c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
– GEM CONFIGURATION:
– :update_sources => true
– :verbose => true
– :benchmark => false
– :backtrace => false
– :bulk_threshold => 1000
– REMOTE SOURCES:
– http://gems.rubyforge.org

I wonder if the “ruby” platform is screwing things up (do you confirm that it shouldn’t be there since I’m on Windows?).

gem install mongrel_service-0.3.3-mswin32.gem

I did that for installing rails 2.0.2 with rubygems 0.9.4 (which had similar problems: it showed an error message 404 download error).

PS. I assume you ran “gem -v” or “gem environment” to confirm you are now on rubygems 1.0?

My problem is not getting the platform selection menu on “gem install mongrel” and “gem install mongrel_service”, the second printing an error message. Since I don’t even get mongrel_service, I can’t apply Luis’s fix (I completely removed my previous ruby directory for a clean install, during the process of figuring out my upgrade problems).

I guess I’ll wait for the bug fixes before I continue with the upgrade.

Best regards,

Chris.

@Luis: thanks a lot for taking your time to investigate and post workarounds

http://blog.mmediasys.com/2007/12/19/latest-rubygems-and-rails-is-a-deadly-combo

HTH,

Luis