From: ES <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2005-03-09T01:29:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Must .gemrc -> gemhome point to Gems installation?

Jim Weirich wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 March 2005 01:09 am, ES wrote:
> 
>>On my system, anything in the gemhome field in .gemrc seems to render
>>Gems unusable. 
> 
> 
> The reason it is failing is that gems requires a "sources" gem be available to 
> tell it where to the sites to use to get remote gems.  You can work around 
> this by putting the standard gem repository in the gem path, while leaving 
> the new gemhome be the target for new installations.
> 
> Here's what worked for me on my linux system.  
> 
> First, with an unmodified .gemrc file,  find the directory of the current gem 
> home:
> 
>   $ gem env gemdir
>   /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
> 
> Now edit .gemrc to contain ...
> 
>   gem: --gen-rdoc --run-tests
>   rdoc: --all --line-numbers --inline-source
>   gemhome: /home/ruerue/lib/ruby
>   gempath:
>     - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
> 
> Now the .gemrc file will direct all new installations to 
> the /home/ruerue/lib/ruby directory.

Thanks for the idea! I had tried it already, though, but no luck. I'm
thinking it's probably got something to do with how Gentoo packages
RubyGems. I'll look into it. In the meanwhile I'm using --install-dir
and put my library path in gempath instead.

> It would be nice to have a way of initializing a new gem home directory with 
> the sources package.  Then you wouldn't need to have the original gem 
> directory in the gem path.  I suppose you could do it by hand, but I haven't 
> tried it.

Maybe you can just separate RUBYGEMS_HOME from GEM_HOME?

E