[Rails] [BUG?] Problem while installing Rails doc

[Edgardo Hames]

Hi everybody,

I got the following error while installing Rails via gems on my Gentoo
machine. I hope this is the appropriate forum to send this report.

Regards,
Ed

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casandra ~ # gem install rails
Attempting local installation of 'rails'
Local gem file not found: rails*.gem
Attempting remote installation of 'rails'

Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Install required dependency rake? [Yn]  Install required dependency
activerecord? [Yn]

Install required dependency actionpack? [Yn]  Install required
dependency actionmailer? [Yn]

Successfully installed rails, version 0.8.5
Installing RDoc documentation for rails-0.8.5...
WARNING: Generating RDoc on .gem that may not have RDoc.

lib/dispatcher.rb:34:67: Skipping require of dynamic string:
"#{Inflector.underscore(controller_name)}_controller"
Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.4.12...

lib/rake.rb:586:47: ')' expected
Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-1.1.0...
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
    undefined method `as_href' for nil:NilClass
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So I tried to update and see if it could be fixed, but got this:

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casandra ~ # gem update -s http://gems.rubyonrails.org
Upgrading installed gems...

Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyonrails.org
Attempting remote upgrade of actionpack
Attempting remote installation of 'actionpack'
Successfully installed actionpack, version 0.9.5.200412010045
Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-0.9.5.200412010045...

lib/action_controller/scaffolding.rb:87:37: Skipping require of
dynamic string: "#{model_id.id2name}"
Attempting remote upgrade of activerecord
Attempting remote installation of 'activerecord'
Successfully installed activerecord, version 1.1.0.200412010045
Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-1.1.0.200412010045...
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
    undefined method `as_href' for nil:NilClass
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casandra ~ # gem --version
0.8.1

casandra ~ # ruby -v
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-06) [i686-linux]

Regards,
Ed
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