From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-02-08T03:29:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ~/.gem ambiguity

On Feb 7, 3:19 pm, Roger Pack <rogerpack2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Seems to me that defaulting to installing gems in ~/.gem could cause
> some ambiguity within ~/.gem/bin if you're using multiple versions of
> ruby simultaneously.
> ex:
> ruby187 puts its 'mongrel' executable there
> ruby19 puts its 'mongrel' executable there and overwrites it.
>
> I realize you can append a prefix to executables for versioning, but
> would another good suggestion be to default to ~/.gem_ruby_version ?
> Thoughts?
> -=r

1.8.6 and 1.8.7 are supposed to be compatible.

1.9.1, on the other hand, get gems installed in ~/.gem/ruby/1.9.1

Regards,
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Luis Lavena