Update RubyGems on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

Posted on the 10th of January 2010

Happy new year everyone! It has been a bit silent from my side lately – due to being extremely busy with new job and so on. Yesterday I took the freedom to setup a new Linode on their recently added London datacenters. I’m from Europe myself so I thought that using a EU host would probably give me a lot better performance. I was right.

I then decided to check out Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. But ran in to a problem when I wanted to update the RubyGems installation. But after playing around a little I found the following solution:

gem install rubygems-update
cd /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin
./update_rubygems

That solved the problem :)