From: Andy Koch <andy.koch@...>
Date: 2007-12-18T08:28:21+09:00
Subject: Re: gem update --system, now my local gems are missing

Andy Koch wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I just did a "gem update --system" to 0.9.5, but now when I do "gem 
> list" I get nothing.
> 
> The gems are still there, I can "ls" them.
> 
> I seem to recall seeing other people have this issue, but I don't recall 
> the fix.  Nor is my googling turning up anything useful.
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> 

I think I see my problem,

my gems are in '/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/'

but now gem is looking in '/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/'

so I exported GEM_HOME in my .bashrc to my place.

probably the real problem is that I've got a Debian that had rubygems 
installed from package, but now I just ran roughshod over that install...