[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Ruby directory clean up proposal.

[Paul Gideon Dann]

On Wednesday 15 Feb 2012 08:59:10 Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
> /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby - This directory is for user specific
> installation and should never be touched by the package manager.
> /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby - ruby packages installed with pacman which
> aren't gems go here
> $HOME/.gem/ruby/[ruby_base_version] - default target when running gem
> install foo because --user-install is now in the gemrc file
> /etc/gemrc - contains "gem: --user-install" to install user installed
> gems with gem to $HOME/.gem/gems
> 
> If the user chooses to install gems using gem, they will have to add
> the bin directory to the $PATH:
> export PATH="$PATH:$(ruby -rubygems -e 'puts Gem.user_dir')/bin".
> 
> System wide installation of gems by default will be disabled.
> If you want system wide gems, either run gem with the
> --no-user-install flag like "sudo gem install --no-user-install foo"
> You can also install to the system wide location by removing
> --user-install from /etc/gemrc

This all sounds mostly fine.  I assume that "sudo gem install" will simply 
install the gem using root-owned files in the home directory, right?

Paul