From: Christopher Dicely <cmdicely@...>
Date: 2008-04-02T14:24:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't get gems to work (1.9, Windows)

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:35 PM,  <jana.koivu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I can't get gems to work in my 1.9 install. Can anyone help?
>
>  The gem command worked ('gem install log4r'), but when I try to
>  include it from a script, I just get 'no such file to load'.
>
>  The gem got installed into the directory 'c:\LAN'. Does that seem
>  correct?
>
>  If I use filemon or procmon while running my script, I notice that
>  Ruby is *only* searching the directories under c:\ruby-1.9\lib\ruby.
>
>  I've tried changing RUBYOPTS, GEM_PATH, GEM_HOME, to no avail.
>
>  Jana

Ruby Gems seems to have a broken default install-dir in the released
Windows build of 1.9; other comments I've seen suggest that using an
explicit --install-dir pointing to the right directory should solve
that problem.