From: Kelly Dwight Felkins <railsinator@...>
Date: 2005-12-10T05:24:51+09:00
Subject: Re: home of the gems?

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Thanks Jim. I'm going to go with your #1. Since this is a debian system, my
guess is rails was installed using apt-get. I also run debian on my persona=
l
systems but I don't use apt-get to install rails -- I use gems.

-Kelly

On 12/9/05, Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> wrote:
>
> railsinator wrote:
> > I think rails can find the gems. Do you know how rails does it?
> >
> > I'm not certain that rails uses gems *after* an application has been
> > created. Rails is installed as a collection of gems, but I guess it is
> > possible that when you create a rails application all of the required
> > libraries are copied or linked, though I doubt it.
>
> hard to say without knowing more details.  Some possibilities are:
>
> (1) Rails comes in non-gem versions, is one of those installed?
> (2) GEM_HOME is an environment variable.  Although your interactive
> shell was messed up, it could be that rails is running in a different
> window with its own, properly setup, GEM_HOME value. (Possibly started
> before you changed it).
>
>
> -- Jim Weirich
>
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