From: Simon Krahnke <overlord@...>
Date: 2009-10-02T16:05:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubygems: System variables I'm missing?

* Tim Mcd <tmcdowell@gmail.com> (16:26) schrieb:

> Hello! I have irb/gem/ruby1.9 installed in /opt/local/bin. Recently  I
> tried to install 'wirble'...
>
> /opt/local/bin/gem1.9 install wirble
>
> I got a message abuot not having write access to /opt/.../gems or
> something along those lines, so it said it would install to ~/.gems,
> which I thought was just fine (and it goes on to say since i done have
> ~/.gems/ruby/1.9/bin in my path, I cant run gem executable. Fine for
> now, I'll change it later.).

Yes, install with sudo if you want it to go into opt.

> But when I go into irb1.9 and hit 'require
> "wirble"', I get an unknown gem error.

Hm, I recently installed FFI into my home path, no problem requiring and
using that in irb1.9.

> I'm thinking I'm missing some sort of system variable to determine otehr
> gem paths for including.

Sorry, no help.

mfg,                      simon .... l