From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2010-09-04T04:17:31+09:00
Subject: Re: load path


On Sep 3, 2010, at 06:47 , Iain Barnett wrote:

> I don't have a reset line, but here's my sudoers.
> 
> # sudoers file.

Here is what my /etc/sudoers has. It has only the one documented molestation by myself. Everything else is _standard_ to Mac OSX:

> # Defaults specification
> Defaults	env_reset
> Defaults	env_keep += "BLOCKSIZE"
> Defaults	env_keep += "COLORFGBG COLORTERM"
> Defaults	env_keep += "__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING"
> Defaults	env_keep += "CHARSET LANG LANGUAGE LC_ALL LC_COLLATE LC_CTYPE"
> Defaults	env_keep += "LC_MESSAGES LC_MONETARY LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME"
> Defaults	env_keep += "LINES COLUMNS"
> Defaults	env_keep += "LSCOLORS"
> Defaults	env_keep += "SSH_AUTH_SOCK"
> Defaults	env_keep += "TZ"
> Defaults	env_keep += "DISPLAY XAUTHORIZATION XAUTHORITY"
> Defaults	env_keep += "EDITOR VISUAL"
> 
> # Added by ryand:
> Defaults        env_keep += "GEM_PATH GEM_HOME"

So, did you gut yours, or what? what's the output from `which sudo`?

> # User privilege specification
> root	ALL=(ALL) ALL
> %admin	ALL=(ALL) ALL
> %iainuser ALL=(ALL) ALL

you shouldn't need %iainuser either if your user is set up as an admin.

> Here's a relevant portion of my zprofile, with recent additions included:
> 
> export RUBY_PLATFORM=darwin
> export PLATFORM="$RUBY_PLATFORM"
> export RUBY_VERSION=1.9
> export GEM_HOME="$HOME/.gems"
> export RUBYLIB="$GEM_HOME"
> export GEM_PATH="$GEM_HOME"
> export RUBYOPT=rubygems

Here is what I have:

> 501 % env | egrep "RUBY|GEM"
> GEM_PATH=/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8

Why do you have all that stuff? and why are you trying to force gems into ~/.gems if that's supported already?

What are you actually trying to do?