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Compass gemfile syntax error on Ubuntu 12.10, Ruby 1.9.3

Having run the standard procedure for installing the rvm, which also installs Ruby 1.9.3, then installing gems for rake, compass, sass, bundler and guard, then adding my gems/bin directory to my path I get the following message on running compass:

/home/m1ke/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p362/gems/bundler-1.2.3/lib/bundler/dsl.rb:35:in `rescue in eval_gemfile': Gemfile syntax error: (Bundler::GemfileError)
gem "guard", "~> 1.0.1"
                    ^
from /home/m1ke/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p362/gems/bundler-1.2.3/lib/bundler/dsl.rb:32:in `eval_gemfile'
from /home/m1ke/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p362/gems/bundler-1.2.3/lib/bundler/dsl.rb:7:in     from /home/m1ke/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p362/gems/bundler-1.2.3/lib/bundler/definition.rb:18:in `build'
from /home/m1ke/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p362/gems/bundler-1.2.3/lib/bundler.rb:144:in `definition'
from /home/m1ke/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p362/gems/bundler-1.2.3/lib/bundler.rb:112:in `setup'
from /home/m1ke/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p362/gems/bundler-1.2.3/lib/bundler.rb:128:in `require'
from /home/m1ke/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p362/gems/compass-0.12.2/bin/compass:26:in `<top (required)>'
from /home/m1ke/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p362/bin/compass:19:in `load'
from /home/m1ke/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p362/bin/compass:19:in `<main>
from /home/m1ke/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p362/bin/ruby_noexec_wrapper:14:in `eval'
from /home/m1ke/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p362/bin/ruby_noexec_wrapper:14:in `<main>'

All gems were installed with the standard gem install compass syntax, I have also run gem update --system

More information!

  • The same gem works fine on my Windows install, installed using the Windows RubyInstaller.
  • Having had no responses I tried removing the gem and installing the ruby-compass package from apt-get. This works fine, but now another gem (not available on apt-get) reports errors the come from both /home/m1ke/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.9-p362/ but also from /usr/share/ruby-1.9.1/ which I assume the Compass apt-get installed. So now I may have two Ruby versions fighting...
Solution

  • Found the answer on another thread

    Just run rubygems-bundler-uninstaller and the problem was fixed right away. Posting this here instead of just linking as the thread linked didn't come up when I searched my error, as my error was a syntax error whereas the linked post has a "file not found" error.