Comments on: Quick Tip: Installing Ruby Gems in the user’s Home Directory

By: Faruk Adam

Faruk Adam — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:13:18 +0000

RubyGems Environment:
– RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.7
– RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2013-06-27 patchlevel 374) [x86_64-linux]
– INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /home/username/ruby/gems
– RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/ruby
– EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /home/username/ruby/gems/bin
– RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
– ruby
– x86_64-linux
– GEM PATHS:
– /home/username/ruby/gems
– GEM CONFIGURATION:
– :update_sources => true
– :verbose => true
– :benchmark => false
– :backtrace => false
– :bulk_threshold => 1000
– “gempath” => []
– “gem” => “–remote –gen-rdoc –run-tests”
– “gemhome” => “/home/username/ruby/gems”
– “rdoc” => “–inline-source –line-numbers”
– REMOTE SOURCES:
– http://rubygems.org/

By: Faruk Adam

Faruk Adam — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 10:43:18 +0000

Please can any one help…I have similar issue but I’m very new to this command line stuff…gem is in at /usr/bin/gem, ruby st
/usr/bin/ruby. Now sass was also installed, however I can check for the versions of gem and ruby but when I do for sass it returns “-jailshell: sass: command not found”

Any assistance to solve this problem would be much appreciated

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 10:41:00 +0000

Thank you for the info! I’ve spent hours trying to get this to work

By: Ilya

Ilya — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 20:45:24 +0000

Small correction to my previous post.
Seems like the example for using -l should be like this:
ruby -I /home/username/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/gems/gemname/lib yourubyfile.rb

By: Ilya

Ilya — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 07:01:38 +0000

Thank you for your post.
It helped me to understand that –user-install is an alias to –install-dir /home/username/.gem/ruby/1.9.1.

By the way, for really local use (without changing your path) you can provide you gem from the command line by -I.
For example ruby -I /home/username/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/bin yourubyfile.rb

By: Mixness

Mixness — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:29:44 +0000

good information, thanks for this share.