[Rubygems-developers] can 2 Gem directories co-exist?

[Jim Weirich]

On 2/3/06, Hugh Sasse <hgs at dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Jim Weirich wrote:
>
> > Oh?  Did you try it with GEM_PATH rather than GEM_HOME.  GEM_HOME
> > specifies your primary repository, where gems will be installed
> > (unless overriden with the -i switch).  GEM_PATH specifies what
> > respositories to search for resolving gem names.  There should only be
> > one repository in GEM_HOME, but you can have multiple in GEM_PATH.
> > (Also, GEM_HOME will be appended to the GEM_PATH list if it is not
> > included in it).
>
> So my earlier documentation patch was basically wrong.
>
> --- /scratch/hgs/rubygems-0.8.11/lib/rubygems/gem_commands.rb.orig      2005-07-10 11:20:26.000000000 +0000
> +++ /scratch/hgs/rubygems-0.8.11/lib/rubygems/gem_commands.rb   2006-02-03 20:42:41.098145000 +0000
> @@ -977,8 +977,8 @@
>        else
>          out = "Rubygems Environment:\n"
>          out << "  - VERSION: #{Gem::RubyGemsVersion} (#{Gem::RubyGemsPackageVersion})\n"
> -        out << "  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: #{Gem.dir}\n"
> -        out << "  - GEM PATH:\n"
> +        out << "  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: (set ENV[\"GEM_HOME\"] to change) #{Gem.dir}\n"
> +        out << "  - GEM PATH:  (set ENV[\"GEM_PATH\"] to change)\n"
>          Gem.path.collect { |p| out << "     - #{p}\n" }
>          out << "  - REMOTE SOURCES:\n"
>          Gem::RemoteInstaller.new.sources.collect do |s|
>
>
> might be better??
>
>         Hugh
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I think I would like to see something like:

  - VERSION: 0.8.11.3 (0.8.11.3)
  - GEM_HOME (where gems are installed)
    - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  - GEM_PATH (where gems can be found):
     - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - http://gems.rubyforge.org

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