From: Adam Wilson <adam@...>
Date: 2009-08-29T01:23:43+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems - change location from local?

J旦rg W Mittag wrote:
> Adam Wilson wrote:
> [...]
>> I installed and checked using gem list, and it seems to be only showing
>> those gems installed since I recently upgraded RubyGems.
> [...]
>> Ideally, I would switch RubyGems to use usr/lib as most of my gems are
>> installed there. I could not find it in the docs, any tips much
>> appreciated.
> 
> The environment variable GEM_HOME contains a single directory, which
> tells RubyGems where to install new gems and the environment variable
> GEM_PATH contains a list of paths where RubyGems looks for gems.
> 
> So, in your case you would probably want to set GEM_HOME to /usr/lib,
> so that all your newly installed gems end up there, and you would set
> GEM_PATH to /usr/lib:/usr/local/lib (not sure about the syntax, is
> that colon or semicolon?) so that it finds both.
> 
> Alternatively you could set GEM_HOME to /usr/local/lib, gem uninstall
> everything, then set to /usr/lib and reinstall. That way you get rid
> of the old "ghost" gems there. (Note: there are probably a million
> better ways to do this. I know that the RubyGems developers read all
> RubyGems related messages, so they'll surely correct me if I'm wrong.)
> 
> jwm

Many thanks for the info, I will look into it... I will wait till 
tomorrow se if any of the RubyGems experts have anything to say, but 
that info seems enough at least to help me move forward.

Best,
Adam
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