From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-04-27T02:49:50+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygem required?

On 4/26/06, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm creating RPM packages for:
>   - opinion (which includes Rails)
>   - ruby 1.8.4
>   - mongrel
>   - rake
>   - gem_plugin
>   - ruby-postgres
>
> (I want to install opinion using postgres on a RHEL system that
> doesn't have internet access)
>
> Do these things need rubygems also installed?  Am i going to be
> breaking things (i.e. mongrel) if I don't use rubygems?
>

To my knowledge, gem_plugin is the only thing on that list that
requires rubygems.  I know I've installed Mongrel without gems in the
past.