jruby -S rake gems:install shows success but doesn't in fact install the gems

Question

Has anyone used rake gems:install under jruby? running sudo jruby -S rake gems:install --trace give me the following output:

** Invoke gems:install (first_time)
** Invoke gems:base (first_time)
** Execute gems:base
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Execute gems:install gem install reek

For more information on reek, see http://wiki.github.com/kevinrutherford/reek 
Successfully installed reek-1.2.1 
1 gem installed 
Installing ri documentation for reek-1.2.1... 
Installing RDoc documentation for reek-1.2.1... 
gem install ci_reporter 
Successfully installed ci_reporter-1.6.0 
1 gem installed 
Installing ri documentation for ci_reporter-1.6.0... 
Installing RDoc documentation for ci_reporter-1.6.0...

All seems well, except that the gems are not installed. jruby -S gem list shows no record of them and a locate for these gems shows nothing.

Here's my setup:

OSX 10.5.8
jruby 1.1.6 (installed with macports, yes I know it's not current)
Rails 2.2.2

Does anyone know if this is a known issue, or if there's a different command I should be issuing to install gems through the rails rake command with jruby? I couldn't find anything on the web.

Answer 1

I did a sanity check using:

jruby 1.4.0 (ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel 174) (2009-11-08 6586) (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-B
it Server VM 1.6.0_16) [amd64-java]

I was able to create a rails app, modify the config to include the hpricot gem, and successfully run jruby -S rake gems:install and jruby -S rake gems.

As a first step for your environment, get the latest 1.40 release, modify your $PATH to point to the newer release and see if you can recreate the problem.