2009/9/18 catel1 <[email protected]>: > > Thanks, Eric, for great response. The problem with doing "sudo gem > install" is that I think env variables such as "PATH" are not passed > when you do sudo. So, gems might give some errors. > > I am not familiar with environment.rb method. Could you explain or > give me a link about this? I'd like gems to be globally available to > all ruby/rails users.
I don't know about Solaris but on Ubuntu sudo gem install is the way to do it. Colin > > Thanks. > > On Sep 17, 6:41 pm, Eric <[email protected]> wrote: >> It doesn't really matter and primarily depends on your execution >> environment. If you `sudo gem install ...` it will put them in the >> system gem directory, if you are installing them as a user, it will >> give you that error and create a .gem directory in your home >> directory. What's important is that the gems are available to the user >> that the app will run under, though if you use the environment.rb >> method (typically "config.gem ..."), you can install all of the gems >> to that user's environment upon deployment via rake gems:install. >> >> At any rate, you should never have to use a mode of 777. If you think >> you do, you're likely Doing It Wrong. >> >> -eric >> >> On Sep 17, 5:55 pm, catel1 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > I am new to Solaris and new to Ruby. When I install some gem file >> > using >> > gem install, I get this warning. I'd like to make these gems available >> > globally: >> >> > bash-3.00$ gem install thor >> > WARNING: Installing to ~/.gem since /opt/coolstack/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 >> > and >> > /opt/coolstack/bin aren't both writable. >> > /opt/coolstack/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/installer.rb:149: >> > warning: Insecure world writable dir /opt/coolstack/lib/ruby in PATH, >> > mode 040777 >> >> > Should I just chmod 777 /opt/coolstack/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 /opt/ >> > coolstack/bin >> >> > or should I do something else?- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
