From: Michael Greenly <mgreenly@...>
Date: 2006-11-27T07:30:41+09:00
Subject: Re: site_ruby

Robert Dober wrote:
> On 11/26/06, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
>> /usr/lib/ruby) it's really only by the grace of the version folder
>> (1.8) that gems can use this location cleanly. Unfortunately Debian
>> packages completely ignore this distinction and install ruby packages
>> right in there with the standard lib --which makes it impossible to
>> distingusih standard libs from non-standard (not nice).
> 
> 
> Ahh I failed to notice, well I realized that apt-get was not going well 
> with
> gem, good to know why.
> That amongst other problems I have posted about recently have driven me 
> to
> switch from Sarge to Gentoo in our
> network of routers and firewalls.
> 

It's possible to mix the two just fine.

Install ruby from apt normally.

When you install rubygems just use something like:

ruby setup.rb --prefix=/usr/local --siteruby=/usr/local/lib/site_ruby

Then add /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/gems/bin to the $PATH

Everything behaves as expected.

I wish there was a way to specifc where rubygems put the executables of 
gems it installs.  then I would just set it to /usr/local/bin and not 
bother with having to modify $PATH but I haven't found a way to do that

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