Tom Ha wrote: > Hi there, > > as far as I know, gems can be stored in 2 folders: > > 1. /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems
These are the gems that are available to the system as a whole. > 2. app/vendor/gems These are the gems available to your application. > > When I install a gem, it automatically goes into the 1st folder. Right. The gem command installs gems for the whole system. > > My questions are: > - What are the reasons one should store the gems in the 2nd folder > (app/...)? > - Does it have anything to do with deployment/"portability"? If yes, > how? If you store gems in app/vendor, they go with your app. This can be useful when you're deploying in a place where you can't or don't want to install system-wide gems. > - How should gems be put in there? Any special command or is copy/paste > OK? There's a rake task for it -- rake gems:unpack or something like that. rake -T will tell you what you need to know. > - Do apps automatically find the correct location of the gems? Any > config to do? Rails will look in both the system gem path and vendor for gems. > - How are gems in app/vendor/gems updated? Using the normal gem update > command? No, because the gem command doesn't even know about them. > > Background info: > - I'm pretty much a n00b > - I plan to deploy my app to slicehost.com (unless you guys know better > solutions) Slicehost is great! > - At slicehost, I will have access to the entire OS (Ubuntu) Then you can use either approach. > > Thanks for any help with this! > Tom Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
