Ruby is broken in fresh cygwin install

[Jon A. Lambert]

Myles wrote:
> If you do a fresh install of Cygwin and include the ruby parser (I
> can't remember if it's there by default), ruby does not work. You get
> a really obscure error msg having something to do with "ubygems". To
> make it work, you have to
>
> unsetenv RUBYOPT
>
> Took me a long time to figure that one out. This should be fixed of
> course.
>

Rubygems is not installed with the cygwin ruby.  You have to install it 
separately yourself.
Meaning you have to do a clean uninstall of rubygems before doing a fresh 
install of ruby.

--
J Lambert


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