I found it hard to find good instructions for installing ruby gems as a non-root user without installing the gem package locally as well. Here’s what I figured out; hopefully this will save someone else some time in the future:
Make a directory for gem installation:
$> mkdir ~/.gems
Set up your .gemrc for gem install-time configuration:
$> cat [...]
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