From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2009-09-03T08:38:20+09:00
Subject: gem server - cannot redirect to gem repository

Due to some quirk of my install-from-source (done earlier today), my 
gems are in /home/tomc/.gem/ruby/1.8/doc, on my Kubuntu Linix OS.

I need to redirect the gem server to this location, but nothing I've 
tried has worked, and I'm out of ideas.

Here's what I think SHOULD work, with the result:

gem server -d=/home/tomc/.gem/ruby/1.8/doc
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (ArgumentError)
    /home/tomc/=/home/tomc/.gem does not appear to be a gem repository

These also do not work:
/home/tomc/.gem
/home/tomc/.gem/ruby/1.8
/home/tomc/.gem/ruby/1.8/doc/activerecord-2.3.3/rdoc (direction to a 
specific rdoc dir)
/opt/ruby-1.8.7-p160/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 (is where my gems actually reside)

=> Can anyone tell me what I'm not grasping, such that this all failing 
so completely?

Thanks!

t.

Here's my "gem env" output:

$ gem 
env                                                                                

RubyGems 
Environment:                                                                                       

  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 
1.3.5                                                                                 

  - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2009-04-08 patchlevel 160) 
[i686-linux]                                           
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: 
/opt/ruby-1.8.7-p160/lib/ruby/gems/1.8                                          

  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /opt/ruby-1.8.7-p160/bin/ruby
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /opt/ruby-1.8.7-p160/bin
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86-linux
  - GEM PATHS:
     - /opt/ruby-1.8.7-p160/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
     - /home/tomc/.gem/ruby/1.8
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :benchmark => false
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - http://gems.rubyforge.org/
tomc@tomc-desktop:/$

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