From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2008-08-03T13:25:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing gems/updating for a specific user.

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Tim Mcd <tmcdowell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sam Haskins wrote:
>> I don't know much about gems, but the sudo password is the password to
>> an account with administrative rights, not a separate name. It takes
>> the password of whoever is logged in as long as they have rights to
>> sudo.
>> (apologies if he has forgotten that password too)
>
> My account or 'side' on the computer doesn't have admin privs, and he
> forgot the admin sudo password. Would the fresh install of ruby for the
> specified user only work?

export GEM_HOME="$HOME/.gems"
export GEM_PATH="$GEM_HOME"
export PATH="$HOME/.gems/bin:$PATH"

Modify to meet your needs, and start installing your gems :)
I hope you know where to put the export to get it set when you open a
terminal, i'm not familiar with osx.

^ manveru