Putting -r ubygems in the path permanently?

[David Brady]

According to the Ruby on Rails download page, Gems is "the soon-to-be
official packaging format for Ruby libs/apps".

Putting "ubygems" in the -r value of the command line for every
invocation of Ruby is getting old fast.

How do I configure Ruby or my (linux) server so that, server wide, it
looks in ubygems for modules automatically?

Thanks,

-dB

 

[Bill Kelly]

How do I configure Ruby or my (linux) server so that, server wide, it
looks in ubygems for modules automatically?

Set RUBYOPT=rubygems in your environment, I believe...



HTH,

Bill

 

[Ara.T.Howard]

According to the Ruby on Rails download page, Gems is "the soon-to-be
official packaging format for Ruby libs/apps".

Putting "ubygems" in the -r value of the command line for every invocation
of Ruby is getting old fast.

How do I configure Ruby or my (linux) server so that, server wide, it looks
in ubygems for modules automatically?

install ruby into

/usr/local/ruby-1.8.3/

so the ruby program is

/usr/local/ruby-1.8.3/bin/ruby

make a small shell script named

/usr/local/bin/ruby183

that looks something like

#! /bin/sh
RUBYOPT="-r rubygems" /usr/local/ruby-1.8.3/bin/ruby "$@"

also google /etc/environment.

-a
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[Michael Kohl]

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How do I configure Ruby or my (linux) server so that, server wide, it=20
looks in ubygems for modules automatically?

I export it from my .bashrc, works like a charm:

export RUBYOPT=3D"rubygems"

While you're there, you can also add the following for nicer ri output:

export RI=3D"--format ansi -T --width 70"

HTH,
Michael

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[Ara.T.Howard]

I export it from my .bashrc, works like a charm:

export RUBYOPT="rubygems"

While you're there, you can also add the following for nicer ri output:

export RI="--format ansi -T --width 70"

this will bite you if you aren't careful. your bashrc is not sourced under
cron, when running remote ssh commands, etc. fyi.

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[Michael Kohl]

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this will bite you if you aren't careful. your bashrc is not sourced
under cron, when running remote ssh commands, etc. fyi.

I'm aware of that, but you're right, I should probably have mentioned
it. This is from my home machine where I do development work, so I'm
obviously logged in and my .bashrc gets sourced. Given that the topic
starter asked about a server, my answer may not exactly have been what
he was looking for.

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