From: Cliff Rowley <cliffrowley@...>
Date: 2007-09-01T22:32:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8 and 1.9

> So here I've thought of a better way to do this.
> You're using CygWin so I'm assuming it's windows and I don't know
> much about this on windows, but you might try creating another user
> account in windows, and install everything for ruby 1.9 under that
> instead. if it works, you can totally avoid all the fragile custom
> installation stuff. Just a logout / login away.

That wouldn't really work for a number of reasons.  Firstly because
things like Ruby and Cygwin are installed globally, not on a per-user
basis - so I wouldn't actually gain anything by switching user
accounts.  Secondly because my development environment exists under my
user account, so switching users would kinda cripple me ;-)

There must be a simple way to do this.  I'll try fiddling with things
like the gem path.  As you say, things make assumptions, and this is
what I'm afraid of - I don't want to hose my existing Ruby.

Cliff