Installing RubyGems with no Rdoc/RI

Finally took the step today of not generating RDoc and Ri when installing Ruby Gems by default by adding the following to ~/.gemrc.

install: --no-rdoc --no-ri
update: --no-rdoc --no-ri

Updating Ruby Gems

I was trying to update my RubyGems to 1.3.1 on OSX 10.5.5 to tryout the Merb Peepcode Screencast with the following command and got the resulting error:

So instead I tried the RubyGems update gem which worked: