Re: Ruby gems in user land ($HOME)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:23:19AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> Patching ruby in a few places would be enough. Alternatively have a
> wrapper script that sets these default values, unless they already are
> defined. Would you accept such patches?

In general, I think it’s better to avoid diverging from upstream, so I’d
rather not patch Ruby itself.

As for a wrapper, I don’t know, but it doesn’t sound very nice either.
But really, the best thing to work on would be Gems as Guix packages.
:-)

Ludo’.