rails-0.14.1 needs rake-0.6.2 but the ebuild only specifies rake-0.5.3 in other words, the rails-0.14.1 ebuild has >=dev-ruby/rake-0.5.3 but should have >=dev-ruby/rake-0.6.2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. update rails without emerging rake first, run rails 2. ... 3. profit! Actual Results: ruby crashy stuff Expected Results: no crashy stuff Portage 2.0.53_rc6 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.8 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X apache2 avi bitmap-fonts bzlib cdr crypt cups curl curlwrappers dba divx4linux eds encode firefox foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib java javascript jpeg junit libg++ libwww lzw-tiff mad mdb mikmod mmx moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mp3 mpeg mpeg4 msn mysql ncurses nfs nls nvidia ogg oggvorbis pam pdf pdflib perl pg-hier php png posix postfix postgres python quicktime readline reiserfs ruby samba sdl server session sftp simplexml soap sockets spell spl sql ssl struts svga tcpd tidy tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev vhosts vorbis xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xsl zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY ... but you probably don't need to know this :)
fixed - thanks for the report