From: Rob Mauchel <rmauchel@...>
Date: 2008-07-25T03:05:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiple GEM repositories

Rob Mauchel wrote:
> Eric Hodel wrote:
>> On Jul 22, 2008, at 17:33 PM, ara.t.howard wrote:
>>> On Jul 22, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Eric Hodel wrote:
>>>> Set GEM_HOME to be the user repository, and have the user  
>>>> repository come first in GEM_PATH.
>>>
>>> has this been fixed?  there was a time when the lookup was reversed  
>>> and had to come last...
>> 
>> Yes, in 1.1.0
> 
> I tried as you suggested, Eric, but it actually resulted in the print 
> statement after the FIRST require no longer executing!
> 
> If, as Ara suggested, I set these environment variables to the path for 
> the global repository first, followed by that for the local one, then 
> things returned to where they were before these changes (i.e. whereby 
> the print statement after the second require no longer executes).
> 
> Shouldn't there be either an error or an exception if these print 
> statements aren't executing? I'm not getting either.

Problem resolved!

After remembering how the very first gem I tried to install in my LOCAL 
repository (quite some time ago now) had caused some errors at the time 
(specifically, because it was already installed in the global 
repository), I decided to try deinstalling all gems, deleting any 
remaining remnants of the local repository, and reinstalling the ones I 
needed from scratch.

And that solved the problem! Assuming, that is, that I set GEM_PATH to 
the local repository followed by the global one and not the reverse.

So, in the end, you were right Eric! (Though it wasn't necessary, for me 
at least, to set GEM_HOME to anything, presumably because the CPanel 
Ruby Gem Installer takes care of that.)

Thanks a lot, you two - now I can proceed (hopefully a non-trivial 
amount) further!

Best,

Rob
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