From: Peter Pk <peterk@...>
Date: 2008-08-20T03:53:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with Ruby under cygwin

I deliberately removed GEM_HOME and tried it again and it still 
installed in /usr/bin/ruby

When I explicitly set it to /usr/local/lib it went into the right place.
It is possible that the setup.rb cached the prior GEM_HOME when it did 
it's "configure" phase.

So it seems the only reliable way to make an explicit, accurate, 
installation script is to explicity define GEM_HOME as part of the 
procedure. Since "setup" isn't explicitly asking for the items and/or 
showing the current settings and asking "Y" or "N" to continue. ie: like 
a debian install script.

toomln wrote:
>> Setup.rb however creates a directory called /usr/bin/ruby
>> so now in cygwin if I get:
>>
>> �$ ruby
>> bash: /usr/bin/ruby: is a directory
> 
> I don't know what you have done here but it seems to me that you made
> a mistake around step #1.
> 
> If you have windows ruby installed too, make sure its directory isn't
> in your path before cygwin ruby and review any RUBY* environments
> variables (unset RUBYOPT). Maybe also check $PATH so that no windows
> commands with the same name as cygwin commands are used instead of
> cygwin commands. Anything else should work smoothly.

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