On Aug 20, 2007, at 6:16 AM, Chad Woolley wrote: > On 7/25/07, Ryan Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I don't think that is right. GEM_HOME seems to be ... sketchy. I >> think you want GEM_PATH and to use the -i flag on 'gem install'... I >> got it working once and have a transcript with Jim where I worked it >> out. I plan on writing it up because it'll really help consultants. > > OK, this is stumping me. I'd like to use a non-root user, without > using sudo, to be able to > > 1. setup/install the rubygems dist from scratch to an alternate > location for which the user has write access > 2. install/uninstall gems from that location > 3. tell rubygems at application runtime to only use gems from that > location (only stick stuff gems from there on my load path) > > Should that all be possible? If not, is any subset possible? Any > detailed commands would be great...
I made a wonderful little screen cast, and then discovered my server is down so I have nowhere to upload it to. So, you get the low tech version: # Create a repository mkdir repository # Install the sources gem. The sources gem has to be in # at least one of your repositories. Since you want to make this # be the one an only one, there you go. # # Oh, this assumes you have a rubygems repository already installed # in the more-or-less normal place. gem install -i repository `gem env gemdir`/cache/sources-0.0.1.gem # Now make this new repository the one that RubyGems will use. export GEM_HOME=$PWD/repository # Now you can install gems into it. gem install rake # The first install always seems to fail. Sigh. Someone should fix that. # Try again: gem install rake gem install flexmock # List your local gems, should list only sources, rake and flexmock: gem list -l # Try using the gems: irb require 'rubygems' require 'rake' # should work require 'builder' # should not work exit # and there you go! -- -- Jim Weirich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
