On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:47:11 -0700, Patrick Crowley wrote: > How do folks feel about installing gems in your home directory? > > Do you prefer that? Or the standard location instead?
Don't like. I always try to structure my development system to allow for installing multiple versions of languages, tools, libraries etc, and as Matt already pointed out installing gems in your home dir probably doesn't work in that kind of scenario. If you're only ever going to work with one version at a time then it probably doesn't matter, though personally I don't like ever installing s/w components in my home dir. Maybe just obsessive organizing compulsion, but I partition my hard disk s.t. software gets installed on the system drive, but nearly all my working data is stored on separate volumes. Partly habit from bad old days of having to wipe and completely reinstall trashed windows systems, but I like that I have clean backup copies of a bootable system volume and all of my data volumes (along w/ incremental archive backups of working data). When I upgraded from Tiger to Leapard I did a clean re-install on my system drive (wanted a diff organization of how I was installing stuff); didn't have to mess with restoring working data because the data volumes were separate and fine as-is. Anybody else use this kind of organization, or do most of you just use single HD volume? ~ Deb --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
