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Disclaimer: This could potentially bugger up Ruby and Ruby Gems on your machine, proceed carefully.

Recently I’ve been doing quite a few REST API building stuffs with Ruby, Sinatra and trying to pick up ActiveRecord to use with Rails. I was however getting quite a lot of problems with Gems loading, but not loading completely.

If when running gem check --alien, you get something similar to below:

rails-1.2.6 has 2 problems
	/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/specifications/rails-1.2.6.gemspec:
	Spec file doesn't exist for installed gem

	/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/cache/rails-1.2.6.gem:
	missing gem file /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/cache/rails-1.2.6.gem

Clear out all of the gems located in the following directories. You will need to similarly remove anything in the bin/, cache/, doc/, gems/ and specifications/ directories.

/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8
/Users/<username>/.gem/ruby/1.8
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8

(These directories can be found by entering gem environment).

You will then need to reinstall all of your gems. You may wish to issue a gem check on each of them to ensure it’s all good.