From: matt@... (matt neuburg)
Date: 2006-11-28T06:35:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.5 on Mac OS X

doog <doog@google.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the info about GEM_HOME.  I set up /usr/local/bin
> to be ahead of /usr/bin.  I still have trouble getting the gems
> to be loaded with the newer /usr/local/bin/ruby
> 
> Here's my setup now:
> /usr/local/bin/ruby              # latest ruby
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/     # gems
> 
> Do I set:
> GEM_HOME=/usr/lib/ruby/gems
> or
> GEM_HOME=/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems
> 
> Also, it's not clear to what values to use for "user directory"
> and the "mygemrepository" in the following (taken from the RubyGems
> man page: http://rubygems.org/read/chapter/3)
> 
>     Use the following to install RubyGems in a user directory
>     (here called /home/mystuff)
>     with a repository named /home/mygemrepository):
> 
>     $ export GEM_HOME=/home/mygemrepository
>     $ ruby setup.rb config --prefix=/home/mystuff
>     $ ruby setup.rb setup
>     $ ruby setup.rb install
> 
> At the moment, I don't need RUBYOPT because I use
> require 'rubygems'

What happens when you say "gem environment" at the command line? m.


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