On Jul 25, 2007, at 09:22, Wes Sheldahl wrote: > On 7/24/07, Chad Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does anyone have any scripts/guidelines/suggestions for using groups, >> set-groupID permissions, and/or umasks to avoid needing root >> access to >> install/update gems? Specifically, how to manage binaries installed >> in /usr/local/bin? >> >> Has anyone even tried this, or does everyone do it via manually via >> sudo (or automate via NOPASSWD entries in sudoers)? > > I've always just used sudo for installing gems. Does this mean you > found a way to have a gem install its binary in /usr/local/bin? > I've never been able to control any of the install locations. > > If the gem is going to be used system-wide, it makes sense to > restrict that to root. For user-specific gems, it might be nice to > be able to install to ~/lib/gems, ~/bin etc.
You can create an alternate RubyGems repository and install gems into there using the GEM_HOME environment variable. -- Poor workers blame their tools. Good workers build better tools. The best workers get their tools to do the work for them. -- Syndicate Wars _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
