# Rubygems install in HOME for Ruby 1.9? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 23, 2008, 11:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-install-in-home-for-ruby-1-9/126904 "2008-01-23T11:35:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unbewusst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/ba9def/32.png) [@unbewusst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unbewusst)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 11:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-install-in-home-for-ruby-1-9/126904/1 "2008-01-23T11:35:55Z")
i’ve installed rubygems 0.9.5 with ruby 1.9 lying in my HOME but i get only a gems/1.8/ directory. then i think i didn’t use to correct version of rubygems ? is that right ? what is the best way to get rubygems working with ruby 1.9 installed in HOME ??? i’m running over Mac OS X 10.4.11 apart from apple’s ruby i do have also a ruby “MacPort” under /opt… Yvon ---
**Author:** ![unbewusst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/ba9def/32.png) [@unbewusst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unbewusst)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 11:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-install-in-home-for-ruby-1-9/126904/2 "2008-01-23T11:54:09Z")
On Jan 23, 2008 11:34 AM, unbewusst [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I have no idea about OSX, but I think you can update your rubygems easily if you go in the ~/ruby/bin directory(gem is located there) and use > sudo gem update --system > to update your Rubygems. I hope that helps. ---
**Author:** ![unbewusst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/ba9def/32.png) [@unbewusst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unbewusst)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 12:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-install-in-home-for-ruby-1-9/126904/3 "2008-01-23T12:00:35Z")
On 23 jan, 11:53, Thomas W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > i’m running over Mac OS X 10.4.11 > > I have no idea about OSX, but I think you can update your rubygems > easily if you go in the ~/ruby/bin directory(gem is located there) and > use\> sudo gem update --system > > to update your Rubygems. I hope that helps. OK, fine, thanks, i’ll try that asap… ---
**Author:** ![unbewusst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/ba9def/32.png) [@unbewusst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unbewusst)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-install-in-home-for-ruby-1-9/126904/4 "2008-01-23T13:52:39Z")
Alle Wednesday 23 January 2008, unbewusst ha scritto: > apart from apple’s ruby i do have also a ruby “MacPort” under /opt… > > Yvon I installed ruby 1.9 alongside ruby 1.8 on my linux system without any trouble. I don’t know Mac OS X, but I heard is Unix based, so I think you can use the steps I took, at least as a starting point. Ruby 1.8 and rubygems were installed using my OS package manager, under the /usr directory. So I had: /usr/bin/ruby18 /usr/bin/ruby (a symlink to /usr/bin/ruby18) /usr/bin/gem18 /usr/bin/gem (a symlink to /usr/bin/gem18) /usr/lib/ruby/1.8 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 I decided to install ruby 1.9 in the /usr/local directory. You can choose any other directory, of course, but you should make sure that it has a bin subdirectory which is in you PATH. Moreover, I decided to install it using appending the ‘19’ suffix to the name of the programs, so that I could call ruby 1.8 (which should remain the default one) with ruby and the new one with ruby19. After downloading and extracting the ruby-1.9 tarball, I issued the following commands: cd ruby-1.9.0-0 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --program-suffix=19 make sudo make install With this, the following files and directories (among others) were created: /usr/local/bin/ruby19 /usr/local/bin/irb19 … /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9 I then downloaded the tgz package (version 1.0.1) from the rubygems rubyforge page ([http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=126&release\_id=17305](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126&release_id=17305)), extracted it and did: cd rubygems-1.0.1 sudo ruby19 setup.rb It’s important to notice I had to use ruby19 to install rubygems, not ruby. This installed the rubygems .rb files in /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.9.0 and created the file /usr/local/bin/gem19. To check that everything worked, I tried installing the rake gem: sudo gem19 install rake (again note, I called the 1.9 version of gem) This created the directory /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.0 and installed rake under it. I hope this helps Stefano ---
**Author:** ![unbewusst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/ba9def/32.png) [@unbewusst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unbewusst)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-install-in-home-for-ruby-1-9/126904/5 "2008-01-23T19:04:20Z")
Stefano C. wrote: > /usr/local/bin/ruby19 > /usr/local/bin/irb19 > … > /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9 Didn’t this install /usr/local/bin/gem19, as well? ---
**Author:** ![unbewusst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/ba9def/32.png) [@unbewusst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unbewusst)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-install-in-home-for-ruby-1-9/126904/6 "2008-01-25T15:00:56Z")
Stefano C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > /configure --prefix=/usr/local --program-suffix=19 OK, fine, thanks, i needed the magick of “–program-suffix=19” ))) ---
**Author:** ![unbewusst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/ba9def/32.png) [@unbewusst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unbewusst)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-install-in-home-for-ruby-1-9/126904/7 "2008-01-25T19:36:02Z")
Stefano C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > Didn’t this install /usr/local/bin/gem19, as well? > > You’re right! When I installed ruby 1.9, I didn’t even think to check whether > gems were included with it, and assumed I had to install it manually, just as > with 1.8. both ways updating rubygems failed with : ~%\> sudo gem19 update --system Updating RubyGems… Updating metadata for 489 gems from [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) … […] … complete Attempting remote update of rubygems-update Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.0.1 1 gem installed Updating version of RubyGems to 1.0.1 Installing RubyGems 1.0.1 setup.rb:12:in `': uninitialized constant Config (NameError) ---
**Author:** ![unbewusst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/ba9def/32.png) [@unbewusst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unbewusst)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-install-in-home-for-ruby-1-9/126904/8 "2008-01-23T20:18:15Z")
Alle Wednesday 23 January 2008, Joel VanderWerf ha scritto: > > created: > > > > /usr/local/bin/ruby19 > > /usr/local/bin/irb19 > > … > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9 > > Didn’t this install /usr/local/bin/gem19, as well? You’re right! When I installed ruby 1.9, I didn’t even think to check whether gems were included with it, and assumed I had to install it manually, just as with 1.8. Stefano ---
**Author:** ![unbewusst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/ba9def/32.png) [@unbewusst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unbewusst)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-install-in-home-for-ruby-1-9/126904/9 "2008-01-25T20:52:40Z")
On Jan 25, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Une Bévue wrote: > ~%\> sudo gem19 update --system There is no need to do this. Ruby 1.9.0 has the latest RubyGems.