[Rubyinstaller-devel] gem install option

[Luis Lavena]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Jon<jon.forums at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Roger Pack<rogerdpack at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Since some users want .rb files associated with ruby.exe, and want
>> > ruby in the path by default, maybe we should make a gem
>> >
>> > C:\>gem install ruby_setup
>> > C:\>ruby_setup install_current_ruby # adds ruby.exe to path, etc.
>> > thoughts?
>> > -r
>>
>> This will eventually be a part of pik.  I'm also working on adding
>> these features to the installer in my fork.
>
> +1 for adding both to the installer as long as it's easy to opt out via gui checkboxs or something similar.
>

As long the option works at user or system level (so the change is to
user account or system-wide when privileges are present).

> should the path info be appended or suffixed to the existing path?  if optional, i think appending new path info is appropriate.

Prepend the PATH, not append, if not, we are going to introduce a bug
due mismatched logic, the prompt with Ruby shortcut prepends the PATH
due a bug reported to RubyForge.

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