From: Jesper Fruergaard Andersen <jgrdev@...>
Date: 2010-04-13T20:04:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Gems installed to $HOME not recognized

I had the same problem on Ubuntu 9.10. Setting the environment
variable GEM_HOME to the location of my gems seems to work.

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Albert Schlef <albertschlef@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using Ruby 1.9, Ubuntu (I don't have the following problem with my
> Ruby 1.8).
>
> For some reason, Ruby 1.9 doesn't see gems I install to $HOME. It only
> sees gems I install as root.
>
> In other words, if I do the following...
>
>  $ gem1.9.1 install haml
>
> ...the gem gets installed in ~/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/gems/haml-2.2.22, and
> when I do 'require "haml"' ruby says there's no such file to load.
>
> On the other hand, when I do....
>
>  $ sudo gem1.9.1 install haml
>
> ...the gem gets installed in /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/haml-2.2.22, and
> doing 'require "haml"' works.
>
> I temporarily solved the problem by symlinking /var/lib/gems/1.9.1 to
> ~/.gem/ruby/1.9.1.
>
> My question:
>
> How can i make Ruby 1.9 see the gems installed at ~/.gem/ruby/1.9.1 ?
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>



-- 
Jesper