Kristian, I am also like you - trying to stay in ubuntu way. Thank you for the tips. I created symlinks for ruby1.9.1 and irb1.9.1 as ruby and irb respectively. If you have another method it would be nice if you share.
Regards, RR On Jul 8, 8:31 am, kristian <[email protected]> wrote: > my two cents. when working on ubuntu with ruby1.8 and ruby1.9 I would > suggest that you the commands > > gem1.9 > ruby1.9 > irb1.9 > > (or 1,8 variant) consistently to make sure you working in the 1.9 > environment throughout. in case you need the "gem, ruby, irb" with out > the "1.9" let me know and I will tell you how to achieve this on > ubuntu - have to look how though. > > I also suggest you add ubuntu-on-rails even you are not using rails > since it will give you a newer version of rubygems > > $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-on-rails/ppa > > maybe that helps you a bit further. > > regards Kristian > > PS: I never used rvm so I can not say anything about it but with ruby > and ubuntu/debian there is always a ruby way and a ubuntu/debian way > and I stick to the ubuntu way since I need to keep my system uptodate > via the ubuntu channel - do not have the energy/time/desire to keep > parts of system updated manually (i.e. rubygems and others). > > PSS > actually I am not installing any gems with sudo gem install since > might impact the ruby tools I installed via ubuntu. for my development > I use to set > export GEM_HOME=$HOME/localgems > export GEM_PATH=$HOME/localgems > and there I install all the gems I need for development work. here I > can wipe out things if I really need to without effecting any ubuntu's > tools > > On Jul 8, 2:10 am, RickRaven <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Jul 7, 5:51 pm, Paul Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Rick, > > > > Maybe irb and ruby are different? Try running this > > > > $ ruby -r rubygems -e 'puts $:' > > > > and then launch irb and do > > > > puts $: > > > > See if they are the same. > > > Paul, I tried these and the outputs were same. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataMapper" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en.
