From: "Nation, Carey" <Carey.Nation@...>
Date: 2009-05-28T03:52:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't uninstall gems on Ubuntu

>>Actually, I think that it's because gem uninstall defaults to
>>installing from the system gem directory.

>  WARNING:  Installing to ~/.gem since /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 and
>            /usr/bin aren't both writable.

Sorry for being vague.  That's what I meant, actually.  That is, since ruby in general couldn't run the gems there as the location wasn't in the path, it wouldn't be able to uninstall them, either.