On Mar 23, 2008, at 21:01 PM, Luis Lavena wrote: > Hello List, > > I'm dealing with something related to how GEM_HOME and GEM_PATH is > processed on Windows. > > Take as base $HOME being set on D:/Users/Luis (except for the drive > letter, sounds like *nix). > > set GEM_HOME to %HOME%\.gems, which ends into > D:\\Users\\Luis\\.gems > > set GEM_PATH to %GEM_HOME%;C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 > > Now, Gem::path reply return this array: > > ["D:\\Users\\Luis\\.gems", "C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8"] > > And gem install is capable to install into GEM_HOME. > > Now, 'gem list' do not find the installed gem, unless I change > GEM_HOME definition to use File::SEPARATOR instead of > File::ALT_SEPARATOR...
I wonder, try: p Dir["D:\\Users\\Luis\\.gems/specifications"] vs: p Dir["D:/Users/Luis/.gems/specifications"] Maybe mixing SEPARATOR and ALT_SEPARATOR confuses something inside ruby. _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
