From: Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@...>
Date: 2009-04-16T22:38:14+09:00
Subject: Re: $GEM_HOM

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On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Derek Smith <derekbellnersmith@yahoo.com>w=
rote:

> I am running cygwin with ruby version ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel
> 72) [i386-cygwin]
>
> When I installed zipruby I noticed this:
>
> make install
> mkdir -p /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/gems/gems/zipruby-0.2.9/lib
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 0755 zipruby.so
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/gems/gems/zipruby-0.2.9/lib
>
>
> Why do I have three gems subdirs? And where should all my gems be
> centrally located and what should $GEM_HOME be?  I would think it would
> be one location for my situation...my home laptop used for ruby coding
> for my night work apart from my full time job.
>
> Also: I installed rubygems, but I am still seeing this below"
>
> $ irb
> irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
> =3D> true
> irb(main):002:0> require 'zip/zip'
> =3D> true
> irb(main):003:0> require 'rubygems'
> =3D> false
> irb(main):004:0>
>
> Smith@smith-laptop /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems
> $ gem list --local
>
> *** LOCAL GEMS ***
>
> appinstaller (0.0.1)
> httparty (0.3.1)
> rubygems-update (1.3.2, 1.3.1)
> rubyzip (0.9.1)
> tags4free (0.1.3)
> ziplookup (1.0.0)
>
>
> Smith@smith-laptop /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems
> $ echo $GEM_HOME
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/gems
>
>
> thank you!
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>
I don't see a problem with having gems/gems/gems as long as all your gems
are there.
Also the behavior you are seeing in irb is perfectly normal.  false just
means it didn't load rubygems (because it has already been loaded) it
doesn't mean there was an error, or that the load failed.

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