FWIW, I've been keeping all of my gems in ~/.gems after reading this: http://ozmm.org/posts/local_gems.html
Your gems are easy to backup, and it's easy to use the same set of gems with different ruby installations. I also frequently need to work on systems where I don't have sudo/root access. Installing gems in my home dir allows makes it easy to maintain a consistent ruby environment. Brian On Feb 6, 11:08 am, Glenn Little <[email protected]> wrote: > In trying to get postgres working under ruby2.2.2 (an issue for > a separate email), I installed the ruby-pg gem: > > % sudo gem install ruby-pg > > Then I read on this page: > > http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=21187 > > that "the gem for ruby-pg is named 'pg'". Not sure what that really > means, but okay, I did: > > % sudo gem install pg > > Now, I cannot uninstall ruby-pg: > > % sudo gem uninstall ruby-pg > ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::InstallError) > Unknown gem ruby-pg >= 0 > > Same behavior if I uninstall pg first. > > Anyone have any ideas? In this email, in particular, how to uninstall > that gem so I can get a clean start? > > Thanks much... > > -glenn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
