Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: > > What's the advantage of not using sudo for gems? And for Rails 2.x, why > would you want anything past 1.8.7?
Aside from the security aspect, which isn't something I'm concerned about in this context, there is just the simplification. Getting identical, portable environments is a far bigger advantage which I should probably have focused on. Also, I have been using ~1.9.2 for 2.3.x with great success for a little while now. The only issue I've ever run into was with TMail. > Don't get me wrong, I think RVM is a great idea and I will probably end > up using it in the near future. I just don't think it offers much of > anything in the OP's situation as presented. Perhaps not, but as somebody that went through the issues of installing from MacPorts and then compiled manually, and then had ruby and ruby19 installed side by side and switched using a Bash alias it would have been great to know RVM existed a bit sooner. Just spreading the word! -- 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.
