So today I’m trying to update my gems and I get this error on random gems like rspec-rails but rspec updated fine.
I googled the issue and found great articles on the error, unfortunately none of them really worked. This brought me to posting what I did to fix it the error.
First, based on dontrepeatyourself, I updated to the latested gem system (version 1.3.3).
gem update --system
Based on what I’ve read on the site, it fixed the issue for a lot of people (keep in mind this is an article from 2007) but it didn’t fix my issue. I continued looking for another solution, and I found a bunch of Window’s specific fixes that involved altering ruby code which I wasn’t going to attempt. Some article comments said to re-install ruby but who has time for that? Other posts (in the comments) said to download windows specific GZip ports but that also had no effect. I even installed a zliby gem hoping it would replace the Zlib but that still didn’t work. So I did what every windows user should do when the problem isn’t getting fixed, REBOOT!. After the reboot, gems updated without a problem (well except of the usual SQLite3 update error on windows
try calling
gem update --system
And then Reboot your system and see if that fixes it
Please leave me a comment to let me know if this helped you
I ran into the same problem on Windows Vista. Reboot did not help.
Al,
I’m sorry that it didn’t help but if you figured out the fix, please let me know how you did it and I’ll update the post