Re: Ruby gems in user land ($HOME)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> skribis:

> In the document I describe how you can install cleanly separated Ruby
> gems in $HOME using the Ruby gem command that comes with GNU Guix:
>
>   https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/RUBY#L152

Nice.

> export 
> GEM_PATH=/home/wrk/.gem/ziy7a6zib846426kprc7fgimggh8bz97-ruby-2.1.3/2.1.0     
>                
> export GEM_HOME=$GEM_PATH                                                     
>                       
> export 
> GEM_SPEC_CACHE=/home/wrk/.gem/ziy7a6zib846426kprc7fgimggh8bz97-ruby-2.1.3/specs
>               

I suspect this won’t be very convenient.  ;-)  I’m not sure what can be
done to help.

> System-level gem support will come later which will support gems
> that live in the store (each gem under its own store path). That will
> be incredible useful for deployment.

Yes, I think this would be best.  And in particular, it would nicely
solve the usability problem above.

Thanks!

Ludo’.