Hi all,
I have an ubuntu machine on which I installed
ruby/rubygems/rails etc using synaptic pkg mngr. Today I tried a local
installation of ruby in my “/home/myruby” dir by compiling ruby source
code using gc and I was successful in doing so. Now how do I install
rubygems and other gems into my new ruby installation dir? any help
greatly appreciated…
thanks & regards,
Venkat
ruby rails wrote:
I strongly advise against installing rails or rubygems via synaptic.
The last several times I tried the synaptic Rails package made several
very unconventional and highly unnecessary modifications to the Rails
install (such as swapping out the /usr/bin/rails executable with a
script that sets up new rails projects unconventionally (such as
creating a bunch of unnecessary symbolic links in the /vendor/rails
directory (which really f**ks things up when you try to check your
projects into subversion, and then take an update… or share it with
another developer on a Mac, or with Rails installed in a different local
path than you do))). There’s more, but that should be enough to give you
the picture.
At this point completely uninstall rubygems and rails via synaptic,
check that everything has been properly removed, then follow the
instructions to install rubygems and rails on rubyonrails.org/down.
Normally, I tell other Ubuntu users to always, always, always install
new software via synaptic. Rails however is the one enormous exception.
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