Bug #12186: /snapshot/lib/rubygems/installer.rb:233

• Status: Third Party's Issue
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: Nightly snapshot (2016-3-13 03:01)
• Backport: 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN

[sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada)]

I downloaded the nightly snapshot (https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/snapshot.tar.gz), and did:

./configure
make
sudo make install

and got:

.../snapshot/lib/rubygems/installer.rb:233:in `check_executable_overwrite': no implicit conversion of nil into String (TypeError)

The offending line installer.rb:233 looks like this,

question << existing

and the values seem to be:

question # => "rake's executable \"rake\" conflicts with "
existing # => nil

Is this a bug, or is there something wrong with my environment?

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Also, I am looking forward for Ruby 2.3.1. Is there a place where the schedule for the release of teeny versions are announced? Or is it is not announced until release?

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Third Party's Issue

It seems the case a target file to be overwritten was not generated by RubyGems,
and the previous line seems to be if ruby_executable and existing.

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

Also, I am looking forward for Ruby 2.3.1. Is there a place where the schedule for the release of teeny versions are announced? Or is it is not announced until release?

The place may be www.ruby-lang.org and/or ruby-talk ML. (you can find a sample on the top of www.ruby-lang.org now :-P)
But, in general, we (stable branch maintainers) can not promise the date of next release, because we can not know the timing when a critical security problem will be reported.