This is actually not the case! If you are using ruby 1.8.6 OR 1.8.7 your gems will be in gems/1.8 for example on my Mac: /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 on my Linux: /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8
You will need to reinstall if you upgrade to ruby 1.9 You will also need to reinstall if you upgrade to REE (ruby enterprise edition) since it uses a separate directory too. on the same linux ree installation uses /usr/lib64/rubyee/gems/1.8 Note that those installations can coexist on the same machine. they use binaries like ruby18, rubyee, ruby19, gem18, gemee, gem19 with ruby and gem usually being a symlink to one of the above. Regards -- Vitaly Kushner http://twitter.com/vkushner Founder, Astrails Ltd. http://astrails.com Check out our blog: http://blog.astrails.com On Jul 7, 5:37 pm, Vamsi krishna Kilari <rails-mailing-l...@andreas- s.net> wrote: > Brian, > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.6 > /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.7 > > These are the folders gems are installed(linux).So all your previous > installation gems will be in the 1.6 folder.What you can do it you can > simlink 1.7 to 1.6 and it shud work fine.But some cases it might cause > issues.so I have suggested to reinstall all the gems. > > Thanks, > Kilari.http://kilari.co.in > > > > > > Brian Penrose wrote: > > Vamsi krishna Kilari wrote: > >> Brian, > > >> Yup you need to re install rubygems and all the gems required. > > >> Thanks, > >> Kilari. > >>http://kilari.co.in > > >> Brian Penrose wrote: > >>> Do I need to re-install gems after upgrading from Ruby 1.8.6 to 1.8.7 on > >>> Unix? > > > Thanks Vamsi...in an attempt to understand things better, just curious > > as to why this is needed? I already had all the latest versions of all > > my gems installed...just updated ruby in /usr/lib/ruby. I'm not > > questioning you're reply, just trying to gain some knowledge. > > > Thanks again, > > Brian > > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
