From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-05-26T07:39:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Trouble doing local instal of rubygems


Greg Brown said:
> 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

The main reason people want to install in a non-standard location is that
they don't have write permission to the normal installation directories. 
If they can't install RubyGems in the normal location, then probably they
can't install gems in the standard gem repository location either.

This means that in addition to doing the above, they must also specify a
gem repository (by setting GEM_HOME) that is in a writable location.

I've updated the pages in the user's guide to reflect this.  The guide now
suggests the following commands:

  $ export GEM_HOME=/home/mygemrepository
  $ ruby setup.rb config --prefix=/home/mystuff
  $ ruby setup.rb setup
  $ ruby setup.rb install

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