From: botp <botpena@...>
Date: 2010-08-26T11:02:21+09:00
Subject: Re: gem list --remote does not work on windows running ruby 1.9.2p0

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Luis Lavena <luislavena@gmail.com> wrote:
> HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH is part of the system, you shouldn't be
> removing those :-P

well if the going gets tough, the brain fa*rts :)

> What was HOME set to?

none. i have no home var

> On Windows XP I used to map my user directory to another drive and
> configured USERPROFILE (in User administration) to that drive.

i would prefer lesser config that requires admin. i'm just lucky here
since i'm close to the admins.. but they're always busy so...

> Vista and now 7 uses user folders without spaces, thank god.

wow didn't know that. i am still stuck at xp after a bad vista experience.

>> btw, Luis, can i install ruby as an ordinary user (no admin ie) and
>> just place ruby under my win home folder... akin to what  rvm does on
>> linux...
>>
> That is how I have installed Ruby (actually using the 7-zip packages
> of RubyInstaller).

ah, the zip packs. thanks, Luis.

> However, please avoid having path with spaces as your home directory.
>
> C:\Users\Luis\Projects\oss\oci\rubyinstaller>where ruby
> C:\Users\Luis\Tools\Ruby\ruby-1.8.7-p302-i386-mingw32\bin\ruby.exe

yes, wish i could touch the root folder anytime. maybe time to go to win 7 :)

> --
> Luis Lavena

thank you and best regards -botp