From: Fernando Perez <pedrolito@...>
Date: 2009-03-29T07:29:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with Rubygems

Hemant Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am facing some issues with Rubygems on my ubuntu gutsy machine,
> where Ruby 1.8.6 p111 is compiled and installed with:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
> 

I would recommend to install each app in its own folder: 
/usr/local/ruby, then update your $PATH accordingly, otherwise 
everything gets mixed up. Now you could uninstall and easily update your 
compiled software with simply rm -rf /usr/local/ruby.
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