From: Greg Brown <greg7224@...>
Date: 2005-05-26T07:15:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Trouble doing local instal of rubygems

>Tom Ayerst said:
>I'm trying to do a local install of ruby gems on a Redhat box and get this:
>Nothing I've tried helps and I'll never get access to /usr/lib/ruby .

>I've seen this problem mentioned a couple of times in Google but no
>explanation.  Any help appreciated, its very frustrating.

Have you tried following the instructions on the RubyGems web page?

whatever directory you want to install it into needs to be in your
path, is it?

if it is, try:
$ ruby setup.rb config --prefix=/home/mystuff
$ ruby setup.rb setup
$ ruby setup.rb install

full documentation available at:
http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/3

HTH