IMPORTANT: Users of Ruby 1.9.3, avoid upgrade to latest RubyGems 2.4.x

[Luis Lavena]

Hello,

Since the release of RubyGems 2.4.0 and 2.4.1, there has been an increase of reports of gem installation issues [1] [2], all related to a platform-specific bug in RubyGems [3]

Until this bug is resolved, if you're a user of Ruby 1.9.3 (any patchlevel), do not upgrade to latest version, but instead limit it to 1.8.29.

At any point you can downgrade with the following command:

C:\>gem update --system 1.8.29

RubyInstaller 1.9.3 ships with RubyGems 1.8.28, so it is safe to upgrade to latest 1.8.x version (which is 1.8.29)

Please accept my apologies for the inconveniences caused by this, we will work to track and attempt to solve this issue shortly.

Regards,

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rubyinstaller/k19SeJijpKU/discussion

[2] https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/issues/234

[3] https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues/977

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Luis Lavena
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