[Rails] Install rubygems error

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 17:39 -0700, Chad Fowler wrote:
> On 3/31/06, Stuart Batty <stuart.batty at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I made the mistake of trying to upgrade to 1.8.4 from 1.8.2 and had intended
> > to upgrade to rails 1.1. I have now completely borked my ruby gems
> > installation. After installing ruby I get the following error when trying to
> > execute gem:
> > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
> > `require__': no such file to load -- zlib (LoadError)
> > Can anyone help me get my rails back? I swear I'll never try to upgrade
> > again..:-)
> 
> You don't appear to have ruby's zlib module installed.  You can find
> out by doing:
> 
> $ irb
> rirb(main):001:0> require 'zlib'
> => true
> 
> You will probably see an error instead of "true".  Did you install
> Ruby from source?
----
Chad - your presence on the list usually signifies another update to
Recipes...is that forthcoming RSN? 

I haven't updated my pdf from the last update and I was kind of waiting
for the next update because I am rapidly approaching the moment where I
will have time and my understanding of rails has improved to the point
that I might be able to better grok the things in your book.

Craig