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I have Windows XP installed and I am trying to run buildr on it, I have never used Ruby before. I followed instructions on the buildr website, i.e.:

  1. Installed Ruby 1.8.6 for windows using Ruby Installer
  2. Set JAVA_HOME env variable to point to my JDK
  3. Ran the following: gem install buildr --platform mswin32. Seemed to install ok except for error about documentation (don't know if that is important or not):

Fetching: rake-0.8.7.gem (100%)
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WARNING: builder-2.1.2 has an invalid nil value for @cert_chain
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Thank you for installing rspec-core-2.1.0

Please be sure to look at the upgrade instructions to see what might have
changed since the last release:


http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/blob/master/Upgrade.markdown

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To get started run buildr --help
Successfully installed rake-0.8.7
Successfully installed builder-2.1.2
Successfully installed net-ssh-2.0.23
Successfully installed net-sftp-2.0.4
Successfully installed rubyzip-0.9.4
Successfully installed highline-1.5.1
Successfully installed json_pure-1.4.3
Successfully installed rubyforge-2.0.3
Successfully installed hoe-2.3.3
Successfully installed rjb-1.3.2-x86-mswin32-60
Successfully installed atoulme-Antwrap-0.7.1
Successfully installed diff-lcs-1.1.2
Successfully installed rspec-expectations-2.1.0
Successfully installed rspec-mocks-2.1.0
Successfully installed rspec-core-2.1.0
Successfully installed rspec-2.1.0
Successfully installed xml-simple-1.0.12
Successfully installed minitar-0.5.3
Successfully installed buildr-1.4.6-x86-mswin32
19 gems installed
Installing ri documentation for rake-0.8.7...
Installing ri documentation for builder-2.1.2...
ERROR: While generating documentation for builder-2.1.2
... MESSAGE:
Unhandled special: Special: type=17, text=""
... RDOC args: --ri --op C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/builder-2.1.2/ri --title Builder -- Easy XML Building --main README --line-numbers lib CHANGES Rakefile README doc/releases/builder-1.2.4.rdoc doc/releases/builder-2.0.0.rdoc doc/releases/builder-2.1.1.rdoc --title builder-2.1.2 Documentation --quiet

  1. Ran buildr --help and got the following error:

C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:926:in 'report_activate_error': RubyGem version error: buildr(1.4.6 not >= 0) (Gem::LoadError)
from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:244:in 'activate_dep'
from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:236:in 'activate'
from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:1307:in 'gem'
from C:/Ruby187/bin/buildr:18

I tried giving it a version:

buildr _1.4.6 _ --help

But I just got the same error except for:

'report_activate_error': RubyGem version error: buildr(1.4.6 not = 1.4.6) (Gem::LoadError)

Has anyone else encountered this or am I doing something wrong?

thanks

UPDATE: I installed JRuby and that worked for me. Any feedback on the initial issue is appreciated, for now I am going to stick with JRuby.

Ross
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This is a known issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BUILDR-580

The recommendation is not run gem update --system.

Alex Boisvert
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  • thanks for the reply, this is the same error I am getting except I never ran gem update --system. – Ross Aug 02 '11 at 08:21
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I have the same problem on Windows for Standalone and PIK installation.

pik install ruby 1.8.7
-- use it --
gem install buildr --platform mswin32 --no-rdoc --no-ri
C:/Users/yclian/.pik/rubies/Ruby-187-p352@java/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:926:in `report_activate_error': RubyGem version error: buildr(1.4.6 not >= 0) (Gem::LoadError)
    from C:/Users/yclian/.pik/rubies/Ruby-187-p352@java/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:244:in `activate_dep'
    from C:/Users/yclian/.pik/rubies/Ruby-187-p352@java/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:236:in `activate'
    from C:/Users/yclian/.pik/rubies/Ruby-187-p352@java/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:1307:in `gem'
    from C:/Users/yclian/.pik/rubies/Ruby-187-p352@java/bin/buildr:18

Like the author said, JRuby is the workaround.

pik install jruby
-- use it --
jruby -S gem install buildr
buildr --help
 buildr [-f rakefile] {options} targets...
-- happy --
yclian
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