Prashant Srinivasan wrote: > > Another reason is that Rubygems does not have an > advanced notion of access control, so setting up user specific > $GEM_HOMEs is not the easiest mechanism out there. ie., if you're not > root, and want to install Rails, there are hoops. Not that this is > specific to Solaris, but it's still an issue.
I hope things can be tweaked to eliminate those hoops though (6635513, 6640996)! It'll be a nice advantage for OpenSolaris when both Ruby developers and sysadmins can cleanly install their gems without complications. -- Jyri J. Virkki - jyri.virkki at sun.com - Sun Microsystems
