# RubyInline folder

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyinline-folder/189274>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 27, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyinline-folder/189274 "2010-05-27T20:34:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![steux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d26b3c/32.png) [@steux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steux)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyinline-folder/189274/1 "2010-05-27T20:34:58Z")

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Hi!  
“# gem install RubyInline” installs its files in /root/.ruby\_inline

Files:  
~# ls .ruby\_inline/  
Inline\_\_ca4f.c Inline\_\_ca4f.so Inline\_ImageScience\_cdab.c  
Inline\_ImageScience\_cdab.c.old Inline\_ImageScience\_cdab.so

How can I change the default path for RubyInline instalation?

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**Author:** ![steux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d26b3c/32.png) [@steux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steux)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 9:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyinline-folder/189274/2 "2010-05-27T21:49:15Z")

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> How can I change the default path for RubyInline instalation?

I don’t have it locally so I can’t check, but it may well be INLINEDIR.

Paul

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**Author:** ![steux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d26b3c/32.png) [@steux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steux)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyinline-folder/189274/3 "2010-05-27T21:58:37Z")

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It is indeed INLINEDIR

This has proved quite useful to me since my $HOME is shared among five  
different \*nixes.

– Monty

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**Author:** ![steux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d26b3c/32.png) [@steux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steux)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyinline-folder/189274/4 "2010-05-27T22:37:06Z")

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Using a certain rails app, I was having problems with permissions  
because rubyinline was inside /root folder.

Added this line in config/environment.rb:  
ENV[‘INLINEDIR’] ||= ‘/var/www/olio/webapp/rails/trunk/tmp’

Now, it works 🙂