From: Eric Hodel Date: 2006-12-29T04:34:21+09:00 Subject: Re: telling gems where to install... On Dec 28, 2006, at 10:17, dc wrote: > gems is great but it kind of hides the code. id like to download > certain gems and customize/build on them. > > is there a way to tell a gem to install to a particular directory? > > and if an app is built on a gem, to then run it using all the gem > source local in that dir rather than in /usr/local/lib ... The GEM_HOME environment variable is the catch-all way, but there are also arguments to gem install. RubyGems does not know how to search multiple directories for gems. -- Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net I LIT YOUR GEM ON FIRE!