Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Ruby directory clean up proposal.

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 14 Feb 2012 01:53:01 Peter Lewis wrote: I think it's worth separating out the user and the admin in this argument. To install a gem system-wide, you have to do something like sudo gem install XXX, right? This is almost always a bad idea, IMO, and people hopefully won't do it at

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Ruby directory clean up proposal.

2012-02-15 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 14 Feb 2012 01:53:01 Peter Lewis wrote: I think it's worth separating out the user and the admin in this argument. To install a gem system-wide, you have to do something like sudo gem install XXX, right?

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Ruby directory clean up proposal.

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 15 Feb 2012 08:59:10 Thomas Dziedzic wrote: /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby - This directory is for user specific installation and should never be touched by the package manager. /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby - ruby packages installed with pacman which aren't gems go here

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Ruby directory clean up proposal.

2012-02-15 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 15 Feb 2012 08:59:10 Thomas Dziedzic wrote: /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby - This directory is for user specific installation and should never be touched by the package manager. /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby - ruby

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Ruby directory clean up proposal.

2012-02-14 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 13 Feb 2012 20:47:01 Thomas Dziedzic wrote: /etc/gemrc - contains gem: --user-install to install user installed gems with gem to $HOME/.gem/gems I didn't know about --user-install, but I just set GEM_HOME (actually, I use RVM). Can what you want be done by globally setting

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Ruby directory clean up proposal.

2012-02-14 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Peter Lewis ple...@aur.archlinux.org wrote: On Monday 13 Feb 2012 20:47:01 Thomas Dziedzic wrote: /etc/gemrc - contains gem: --user-install to install user installed gems with gem to $HOME/.gem/gems I didn't know about --user-install, but I just set

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Ruby directory clean up proposal.

2012-02-13 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi, I'm not a dev, so am replying on arch-general, but a TU who uses a lot of ruby on Arch. Thanks for thinking about this. I too have been trying to come up with my own sane way of using ruby - gems particularly - with Arch. On Sunday 12 Feb 2012 17:37:17 Thomas Dziedzic wrote: Current

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Ruby directory clean up proposal.

2012-02-13 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Peter Lewis ple...@aur.archlinux.org wrote: Hi, I'm not a dev, so am replying on arch-general, but a TU who uses a lot of ruby on Arch. Thanks for thinking about this. I too have been trying to come up with my own sane way of using ruby - gems particularly -