From: Kelly Dwight Felkins <railsinator@...>
Date: 2005-12-09T11:11:40+09:00
Subject: home of the gems?

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 I'm trying to understand how gems are loaded. Please help.

A little background:

I decided to do some rails development work on a debian system. I didn't
think rails was up to date, so I tried to do a 'gem update rails'. This
failed because I did not have root access. So I installed the gems locally.
Everthing seemed fine.

I later deleted the local gem directory. Now:

   - "gem list" says there are no gems.
   - "gemwhich rails" says "can't find rails.
   - The application runs fine.

By now it is clear to me that there are gems installed in the default
location. I would like to override this with a local install. I don't
understand how the load path is determined.

Thanks for your help.

-Kelly

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