From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2004-05-10T19:42:44+09:00
Subject: Re: running gem

On Mon, 10 May 2004 15:50:04 +0900, why the lucky stiff
<ruby-talk@whytheluckystiff.net> wrote:
> 
> Chad Fowler wrote:
> > We us a program called "env" with the argument "ruby" to
> > find ruby in the path and run the script with whatever ruby was found
> > in the path.
> 
> In the classic install.rb, the path to ruby is used rather than 'env'.
> This is great for situations where ruby isn't anywhere that can be found
> by 'whereis' or 'env'.  The path is built like so:
> 
>    require 'rbconfig'
>    c = ::Config::CONFIG
>    rubypath = c['bindir'] + '/' + c['ruby_install_name']
> 
> I like this approach a lot.  This way, if I want to install RubyGems for
> my Ruby 1.6 installation, then `ruby16 install.rb' will do the trick fine.
> 

That's a good reason.  I'll add that to the TODO list.

Chad