From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-08-22T08:15:12+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyInstaller 1.9.2-p0 released - Newer DevKit and instructions

On Aug 21, 5:17 pm, Michel Demazure <mic...@demazure.com> wrote:
> Luis Lavena wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > I'm very pleased to announce the release of RubyInstaller packages for
> > Ruby 1.9.2-p0.
>
> Just for the record. In the file 'rubygems.rb' shipped with the
> installer, line 500, the windows home drive is hard coded as 'C:/'. This
> should not be. If your home drive is not C: (quite rare, but happens for
> me), you should modify this line.
>

Indeed is wrong, as it assumes that the system drive is C:. Please
open a ticket at RubyGems tracker:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=575&group_id=126&func=browse

Anyhow, 1.9.x should not be having issues expanding "~", if it does,
the lack of either HOME, HOMEDRIVE+HOMEPATH or USERPROFILE might be
the issue.

One of these variables is required and is assumed a 2000/XP/Vista/
7/2003/2008 Windows user have defined.

> Actually, rubygems.rb should refer to ENV["HOMEDRIVE"].
>

As I mentioned over RubyInstaller list, File.expand_path("~") should
not have issues at all as internally is doing the same thing.

I would recommend not change these values and instead report the
issues to both Ruby-Core and RubyGems trackers.

--
Luis Lavena