On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org> wrote: > If you actually read the message you got, you will note that you *can* > update Rubygems using itself in Debian. You just have to define the > REALLY_GEM_UPDATE_SYSTEM environment variable to confirm that you really > know what you are doing. Or you could be less of an ass and just tell him to install rubygems-update and not to listen to overly complicated outdated methods.