From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-08-21T01:32:18+09:00
Subject: Re: gems directory not getting installed

On Aug 20, 9:19 am, "Parv G." <ghotr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've tried installing different versions of one click installers on a
> windows server 2008 64bit, each time installation seems to have gone
> fine, but when I look under <ruby>/lib/ruby I do not see a 'gems'
> directory.
>
> Anyone know why this might be happening or a solution or workaround to
> this?

'gem env'

Look under gem directories, that is where gems get installed. E.g.:

gem env

RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.7
  - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [i386-mingw32]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: C:/Users/Luis/Tools/Ruby/ruby-1.8.7-p302-
i386-mingw32/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: C:/Users/Luis/Tools/Ruby/ruby-1.8.7-p302-i386-
mingw32/bin/ruby.exe
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: C:/Users/Luis/Tools/Ruby/ruby-1.8.7-p302-
i386-mingw32/bin
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86-mingw32
  - GEM PATHS:
     - C:/Users/Luis/Tools/Ruby/ruby-1.8.7-p302-i386-mingw32/lib/ruby/
gems/1.8
     - C:/Users/Luis/.gem/ruby/1.8
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :benchmark => false
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
     - :sources => ["http://rubygems.org"]
     - "install" => "--no-ri --no-rdoc --env-shebang"
     - "update" => "--no-ri --no-rdoc --env-shebang"
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - http://rubygems.org


Look where the gems are installed, under a versioned folder.

--
Luis Lavena