[Rubygems-developers] where does persistent data go in a gem?

[Eric Hodel]

On Jan 22, 2007, at 08:59, Jeremy Stell-Smith wrote:
> 3) it prompts the user for where to put place it's build directory  
> on it's first install and subsequent updates.
>
> 1 & 2 make sense, but 3 kind of sucks.  a user could care less  
> where this stuff lives, and even if they do, they want to specify  
> it once, not on every install, what if they don't remember where it  
> lives?
>
> I guess this is a problem others have faced and solved.  What's the  
> conventional wisdom about where to put these types of things?

Provide a command line option, a dotfile to specify it in and a good  
default.

(This question is much more appropriate for ruby-talk.)

-- 
Eric Hodel - drbrain at segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net

I LIT YOUR GEM ON FIRE!