Hi Rong, Have you been loading gems? I'm not sure which part of RoR causes it to be created but you can think of it like your shell history file. One or more of the applications you run regularly use that file for book keeping and startup configuration.
I wouldn't worry about it too much but you could keep deleting it and see if it gets recreated as part of one of your favorite apps is run. Rick On Nov 24, 10:06 am, Rong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, but I keep deleting the folder and it keeps coming back. It's > empty but it keeps re-appearing. > > On Nov 24, 3:30 am, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's where gems will be installed if you run a "gem install ..." > > command and you don't have permission to create files in the default > > gem directory. If you run "sudo gem install ..." the gems will be > > installed in the default location. > > > Rick > > > On Nov 23, 7:58 pm, Rong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Does anyone know the purpose of a hidden file called ".gems" in my > > > home folder on os x? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
