On January 22, 2019 4:03:29 PM GMT+01:00, Bert Peters via aur-general <aur-general@archlinux.org> wrote: >Levente Polyak via aur-general schreef op 2019-01-22 13:40: >> On January 22, 2019 1:25:20 PM GMT+01:00, Bert Peters via aur-general >> <aur-general@archlinux.org> wrote: >>> David Runge schreef op 2019-01-22 12:30: >>>> On 2019-01-22 17:09:35 (+0800), Metal A-wing wrote: >>>>> On Tue Jan 8 20:19:43 UTC 2019, David Runge wrote: >>>>> Why is use >>>>> `$(gem env gemdir)` >>>>> >>>>> Instead of >>>>> >>>>> `$(ruby -e'puts Gem.default_dir')` >>>> It's shorter and you don't have to spawn a ruby process to print >>>> something, if you can use the gem command directly. >>> >>> I'm not a TU so take my this with a grain of salt, but I don't think >>> this is the best advice. >>> >>> It's shorter, admittedly, but `gem` spawns a ruby process just as >the >>> `ruby` version does. Using gem doesn't work however when `$GEM_HOME` > >>> is >>> >>> set, since then it reports the contents of that variable. >>> >>> Especially for AUR packages using `$(ruby -e'puts Gem.default_dir')` > >>> is >>> >>> more convenient since most users do not build in a clean chroot, and >>> the >>> wiki actually recommends settings that environment variable so quite >a >>> few will have it. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Bert Peters. >> >> Which seems silly and the whole section should be removed in the >first >> place. >> Thats what --user-install switch should be for and that should be >> default via /etc/gemrc >> Therefor setting that is just useless fiddling with the system and >> your gems will be searched there as well as it's default gem path >> besides /usr/lib. > >While `gem` obeys that default, `bundle` (ruby-bundler) does not, and >does not >have that default, opting for a global install by default. You can >override >this by manually adding `--path=~/.gem` to every invocation. That's >hardly an >elegant solution compared to setting an environment variable.
Which is why "bundle config path" exists. A sane way would be to use that to define BUNDLE_PATH in ~/.bundle/config