Hi all,
I did a significant amount of googling and archive reading before
posting to this list, but I still cannot get a working environment in
which I have 2 gem directories.
I don't have root/sudo privileges on one of the (Linux/Debian) box I'm
working with and I'm trying to have my own gem directory in addition to
the one already in place on that box.
Here what I started with (GEM_HOME and GEM_PATH variables not set)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:$ gem env
Rubygems Environment:
- VERSION: 0.9.0 (0.9.0)
- INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
- GEM PATH:
- /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
- REMOTE SOURCES:
- http://gems.rubyforge.org
I wanted to install an new gem (fastercsv) and I checked it was not
installed already:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:$ ruby -e "require 'fastercsv'"
-e:1:in `require': no such file to load -- fastercsv (LoadError)
from -e:1
just for the heck of it, I also ran a "gem query | grep faster" and it
returned nothing.
So I created my personal gem directory (mkdir ~/gems) and installed the
fastercsv gem in it (using the -i option for gem)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] gem install fastercsv -i ~/gems
Need to update 1 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org
.
complete
Successfully installed fastercsv-1.2.0
Then, I added my own gem directory to my GEM_PATH environment variable
[EMAIL PROTECTED] export GEM_PATH=~/gems
Then I verified that it was added
[EMAIL PROTECTED] gem env
Rubygems Environment:
- VERSION: 0.9.0 (0.9.0)
- INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
- GEM PATH:
- /home/rperrier/gems
- /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
- REMOTE SOURCES:
- http://gems.rubyforge.org
Then I verified that the new gem could be found
[EMAIL PROTECTED] gem query | grep faster
fastercsv (1.2.0)
FasterCSV is CSV, but faster, smaller, and cleaner.
But when I tried to use the newly installed gem in a ruby program, it
didn't work.
I tried first:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ruby -e "require 'fastercsv'"
-e:1:in `require': no such file to load -- fastercsv (LoadError)
from -e:1
I tried then irb:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'rake'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require 'fastercsv'
LoadError: no such file to load -- fastercsv
from (irb):2:in `require'
from (irb):2
I tried with different values of GEM_PATH
("~/gems:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8". "/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8:~/gems"), but
it was still not working.
So am I missing something?
The worse is that I tried to do the same on a windows box and it worked...
Any help / hint / suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
--
René
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