I''ve reported this before, but never heard anything. Maybe someone now has some insight. When I do a gem update, I always get errors like the following: Successfully installed actionpack-1.12.5 Installing ri documentation for actionpack-1.12.5... While generating documentation for actionpack-1.12.5 ... MESSAGE: Unhandled special: Special: type=17, text="SimpleXML" ... RDOC args: --ri --op /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/actionpack-1.12.5/ri --quiet lib (continuing with the rest of the installation) Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-1.12.5... It happens for several gems - this time it was Actionpack, Actionwebservice, Activerecord (twice in the same session too!) Anyone have any insight as to why this happens? If I do an individual update of the problem gem, it proceeds without error - but I''m not totally convinced that everything was installed. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Thanks, jt