RVM might be the best tool to manage a per-user Ruby install and the required gem dependencies:
http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/ I haven't used it on Linux, but I've been using it successfully on OSX for the last 6+ months. Hope that helps. p. On Aug 1, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Bothari wrote: > Group, > > I think I'm stumbling over an environment setting, but I can't see > where it is. I'm trying to upgrade some Ubuntu 10 boxes that have > rubygems installed via apt-get, and they are stuck on version 1.2. > The gem list --remote comand doesn't work (cant remember the error > now) but it's complaining about not being able to get to rubyforge,so > I think the rubygems install is just too old. > > Naturally, I don't have root access on these boxes, so I'd like to try > and install rubygems in the user directory. It's for a class > (starting Monday) so it doesn't need to be a permanent solution. > > I've downloaded, installed via ruby setup.rb --prefix ~/rubygems137, > but when I run ~/rubygems137/bin/gem --version, I get the old version. > > I've tried resetting the gem_home and gem_path environment variables, > but it keeps running the old version. > > What else? > Joe > -- > "There are only two industries that refer to their customers as > ‘users’." - Edward Tufte > _______________________________________________ > Bdrg-members mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members -- Patrick Reagan <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Bdrg-members mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members
