Command `gem server` causes `NoMethodError`

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
cli

Research direction

Reproduce the failure with gem server, then trace the Gem::RDoc.load_rdoc call and the RDoc::RubygemsHook method named in the error. Done means the command no longer raises NoMethodError and starts the expected local gem server.

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Description

Environment

> ruby -v && gem --version && gem info rubygems-server
ruby 3.3.6 (2024-11-05 revision 75015d4c1f) +YJIT [arm64-darwin24]
3.5.23

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

rubygems-server (0.3.0)
    Author: Hiroshi SHIBATA
    Homepage: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems-server
    License: MIT
    Installed at: /Users/stephan/.rbenv/versions/3.3.6/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0

    Gem::Server and allows users to serve gems for consumption by `gem
    --remote-install`.

Hardware:

  • OS: macOS Sequoia 15.2 arm64
  • Kernel: Darwin 24.2.0

Behaviour

 > gem server
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
    undefined method `load_rdoc' for class RDoc::RubygemsHook

    Gem::RDoc.load_rdoc
             ^^^^^^^^^^

I expected to get a runing local gem server.
Am I doing it wrong? Should I be using something else?
Or maybe my expectation mislead?

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