Installation Problem: Invalid Gem format

[dizz]

Hey I am having a problem installing rails on my ubuntu machine. I
cannot install any gems and keep on getting the following error.

ERROR: Error installing rails:
invalid gem format for /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/
activerecord-2.0.2.gem

I have tried updating rubygems, manually installing rubygems (not
using synaptic) and still cannot get ruby gems to work.

It would be great if anybody could give me a hand.

Thanks

[Rwema Aimable]

I had the same problem and deleted the file
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/
activerecord-2.0.2.gem resolved the problem for me. Hope is helps

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[Rafael Guerrero]

i try deleted file and after execute command the file is recreate :(

[Willie Bens]

Hello Folks:

I had the same problem, but with actionpack-2.1.0.gem. The way I solved
it was by deleting actionpack, and then updating gems:

cd /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/
rm actionpack-2.1.0.gem

cd /usr/local/rubygems-0.9.5/
gem update –system
gem install rails --include-dependencies

Thanks.
--Willie

[Ulric W.]

I've just made:

sudo apt-get remove ruby1.8
sudo apt-get remove ruby1.8-dev
sudo apt-get remove rubygems1.8
sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.2
sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.2-dev
sudo apt-get install rubygems1.9.2

and everything's ok