On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Chad Woolley wrote:
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Eric Hodel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Oct 25, 2008, at 20:17 PM, Chad Woolley wrote:
Then will there be any way to configure all gems to be installed
and loaded from ~/.gem, without any root access required (as long
as ~/.gem/.../bin is on path)?
GEM_PATH and GEM_HOME
OK. So essentially, if an tool which uses the RubyGems API wants to
make gem installation transparent and non-root, it will need to set
these ENV variables before invoking any API call? And, I assume,
manually send the "hey you need ~/.gem/.../bin on your path" message?
If you're using the API to install gems, you get the benefit of
the :install_dir option, so there's no need to set any environment
variables. If you're writing a script that drives bin/gem, you can
either set an environment variable or specify a path with --install-dir.
The installer will take care of the warning message for you regardless.
The API in general needs to be improved, as it is difficult to do what
you want (whatever that may be). IIRC the methods you need to call to
set the path are private, and I've left them private because I barely
understand how they fit together.
I guess that will work - but I'm still curious to know why this
would be difficult gem_prelude.rb for 1.9. Do you have links to any
threads/IRC where this was discussed?
gem_prelude.rb (and prelude.rb) aren't supposed to do much, and that
includes opening and parsing files, even with a naive yaml parser.
It's more of a political problem than a technical problem.
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