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jiewmeng

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Registered: 2012-02-09

Posts: 118

Where are ruby gem installed

I just installed Ruby Gem for AppFog

sudo gem install af

But ...

[jiewmeng@JM ruby]$ af login
bash: af: command not found

I think its not finding the gem, I fixed this before, but forgot ...

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marenkay

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-05-29

Posts: 6

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Re: Where are ruby gem installed

Unless you specify

--no-user-install

the gem tool will try to install into the user directory for a while now.

I have added /etc/profile.d/rubygems.sh to my system containing:

export PATH="$PATH:$(ruby -rubygems -e 'puts Gem.user_dir')/bin"
export GEM_HOME="$(ruby -rubygems -e 'puts Gem.user_dir')"

which results in gems being installed into the user .gem directory, and also adds it to the users PATH.