From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2006-09-21T02:24:40+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygems local install?

Mike Ferrier wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to use a .gem on a machine that I do not have root 
> permissions on. I've been following 
> http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToUseMultipleGemRepositories 
> to install gem locally, but no matter what I do I always seem to end up 
> with: "/gem:9:in `require': no such file to load -- rubygems 
> (LoadError)".

Try setting

   export RUBYLIB=/home/mef/ruby/geminstall/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8

That way Ruby knows where to pick up your installed version of RubyGems.

-- Jim Weirich

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