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 ------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------- So I tried to update and see if it could be fixed, but got this: ------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------- casandra ~ # gem --version 0.8.1 casandra ~ # ruby -v ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-06) [i686-linux] Regards, Ed -- The downside of being better than everyone else is that people tend to assume you''re pretentious.