“No such file or directory - getcwd” error on rubygems on Mac Os Lion

Question

I\'m trying to launch a heroku console that uses rubygems but I keep getting this error:

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/         


        

Answer 1

In my case, I was in a directory that had "unusual" characters in its name: /Volumes/Members/Finance & Accounting/-MC 2008, 7848/2020.

And also, I was in a remote directory, as Mac users will recognize.

I simply did push ~ and ran the command again, then did popd to get back to my remote directory with odd characters in the name.

It could be that gem is ill-behaved in the face of directory names containing whitespace, or it could be that it doesn't work on networked directories.

The bash built-in pwd worked just fine in the remote directory with the funny name.

This whole thing makes me a bit nervous about gem.