On 16/10/2007, Peter Schow <Peter.Schow at sun.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:19:24AM -0700, Jyri Virkki wrote: > > > > I am sponsoring this fast track for Prashant Srinivasan. Details below. > > Appendix 2 is in the materials directory. > > > > > > Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.64 07/13/07 SMI > > This information is Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems > > 1. Introduction > > 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: > > Including Ruby 1.8 with Solaris > > 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: > > Author: Prashant Srinivasan > > 1.3 Date of This Document: > > 16 October, 2007 > > 4. Technical Description > > > > Including Ruby 1.8 with Solaris > > Good stuff. > > 1. Who gets to write to the /var/ruby directory, where the gems > are maintained? The Ruby development model is tailored to the > individual downloading of gems, as they are needed. On a multi-user > system, this type of updating in a common directory might be > a problem.
I would assume that they would install them into their home directory instead: http://www.rubygems.org/read/chapter/3 (Note that I'm not speaking for the thread originator). -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth
