[Rubygems-developers] Gem uninstall not working on windows w/1.1.1?

[Luis Lavena]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Chad Woolley <thewoolleyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Haven't tried to debug this.  I can provide more info if it is not reproducible:
>
>  C:\>gem --version
>  1.1.1
>
>  C:\>gem list mongrel
>
>  *** LOCAL GEMS ***
>
>  mongrel (1.0.1)
>
>  C:\>gem uninstall mongrel
>  INFO:  In order to remove mongrel, please execute:
>         gem uninstall mongrel --install-dir=c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
>
>  C:\>gem uninstall mongrel --install-dir=c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
>  INFO:  In order to remove mongrel, please execute:
>         gem uninstall mongrel --install-dir=c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8


Could reproduce this:

RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.1.1
  - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [i386-mswin32]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY:
D:/Users/Luis/ruby/ruby-186-p114-VC6-rubygems-111/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE:
D:/Users/Luis/ruby/ruby-186-p114-VC6-rubygems-111/bin/ruby.exe
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86-mswin32-60
  - GEM PATHS:
     - D:/Users/Luis/ruby/ruby-186-p114-VC6-rubygems-111/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :benchmark => false
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
     - :sources => ["http://gems.rubyforge.org"]
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - http://gems.rubyforge.org


gem list mongrel

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

mongrel (1.1.4)

gem uninstall mongrel

uccessfully uninstalled mongrel-1.1.4-x86-mswin32-60
Remove executables:
        mongrel_rails

in addition to the gem? [Yn]
Removing mongrel_rails

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Maybe there is something in GEM_HOME or GEM_PATH affecting your results?

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