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

[Thomas Dziedzic]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Correct, by default sudo gem install foo would install to
/root/.gem/ruby which isn't system wide.
If you really want system wide installs, either run sudo gem with
--no-user-install or remove --user-install from /etc/gemrc