Comments on: Installing ruby gems in your home directory http://jbowes.dangerouslyinc.com/2008/05/13/installing-ruby-gems-in-your-home-directory/ Purveyor of Pre-eminent Programmes Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:33:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Brenton http://jbowes.dangerouslyinc.com/2008/05/13/installing-ruby-gems-in-your-home-directory/#comment-46040 Brenton Tue, 13 May 2008 15:16:55 +0000 http://jbowes.dangerouslyinc.com/?p=170#comment-46040 For development you also have the option to build ruby and install it to your homedir. The gem command will install the gems wherever the ruby interpreter that runs it is installed. At least for me personally that has helped when I run multiple versions of ruby in development but use RPMs to lay down everything system wide. Whenever I want to use a particular ruby version for development I just set my PATH appropriately. For development you also have the option to build ruby and install it to your homedir. The gem command will install the gems wherever the ruby interpreter that runs it is installed.

At least for me personally that has helped when I run multiple versions of ruby in development but use RPMs to lay down everything system wide. Whenever I want to use a particular ruby version for development I just set my PATH appropriately.

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