Ruby Gem error installing ri documentation

Question

I am trying to install GitLabHQ on my Debian 6.0.4 machine. This is a new version dated April 13, 2012. Now I come to the point where I need some installations that need to be done with Ruby gem. In particular:

gem install bundler 

This shows the following error:

 Successfully installed bundler-1.1.3 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for bundler-1.1.3... ERROR: While executing gem ... (ArgumentError) undefined class/module Encoding 

Then I tried rebuilding Ruby packages using

 gem pristine --all 

It did not help. Here is a list of installed Ruby packages:

 rake-0.9.2.2 at Sat Apr 14 20:44:40 2012 rvm-1.11.3.3 at Sat Apr 14 20:44:47 2012 rubygems-bundler-0.9.0 at Mon Apr 16 09:04:32 2012 rack-test-0.6.1 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:10 2012 daemon_controller-1.0.0 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:10 2012 tilt-1.3.3 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:10 2012 erubis-2.7.0 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:10 2012 multi_json-1.2.0 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:10 2012 rack-cache-1.2 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:10 2012 thor-0.14.6 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:10 2012 actionmailer-3.2.3 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:10 2012 treetop-1.4.10 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:11 2012 fastthread-1.0.7 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:11 2012 activeresource-3.2.3 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:11 2012 polyglot-0.3.3 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:11 2012 i18n-0.6.0 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:12 2012 journey-1.0.3 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:12 2012 actionpack-3.2.3 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:12 2012 rack-ssl-1.3.2 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:12 2012 activesupport-3.2.3 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:12 2012 passenger-3.0.12 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:12 2012 railties-3.2.3 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:13 2012 rack-1.4.1 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:13 2012 sprockets-2.1.2 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:13 2012 mime-types-1.18 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:13 2012 arel-3.0.2 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:13 2012 hike-1.2.1 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:14 2012 mail-2.4.4 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:15 2012 activerecord-3.2.3 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:15 2012 activemodel-3.2.3 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:15 2012 tzinfo-0.3.33 at Mon Apr 16 09:11:15 2012 builder-3.0.0 at Mon Apr 16 09:13:07 2012 rdoc-3.12 at Mon Apr 16 09:15:52 2012 json-1.6.6 at Mon Apr 16 09:30:55 2012 bundler-1.1.3 at Mon Apr 16 09:31:06 2012 

Even though a typesetter appeared on the list, it did not seem to be installed correctly.

I hope someone can help me with this because I really need GitLabHQ to work.

Daniela.

Answer 1

Not a fix, true, but a workaround: Put this line:

 gem: --no-rdoc --no-ri 

to a file called ~/.gemrc to skip the installation of the rdoc and ri documentation (which you might not want on your system, this will speed up the installation process quite a bit).