Seems to me that defaulting to installing gems in ~/.gem could cause
some ambiguity within ~/.gem/bin if you're using multiple versions of
ruby simultaneously.
ex:
ruby187 puts its 'mongrel' executable there
ruby19 puts its 'mongrel' executable there and overwrites it.
I realize you can append a prefix to executables for versioning, but
would another good suggestion be to default to ~/.gem_ruby_version ?
Thoughts?
-=r
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1.8.6 and 1.8.7 are supposed to be compatible.
1.9.1, on the other hand, get gems installed in ~/.gem/ruby/1.9.1
Regards,
On Feb 7, 3:19 pm, Roger Pack <rogerpack2...@gmail.com> wrote:
Seems to me that defaulting to installing gems in ~/.gem could cause
some ambiguity within ~/.gem/bin if you're using multiple versions of
ruby simultaneously.
ex:
ruby187 puts its 'mongrel' executable there
ruby19 puts its 'mongrel' executable there and overwrites it.I realize you can append a prefix to executables for versioning, but
would another good suggestion be to default to ~/.gem_ruby_version ?
Thoughts?
-=r
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Luis Lavena
1.9.1, on the other hand, get gems installed in ~/.gem/ruby/1.9.1
Oh gotcha thanks for pointing it out. I thought for some reason that
they shared a bin directory.
1.8.6 and 1.8.7 are supposed to be compatible.
For me they have been all except ruby inline, whose generated .so files
aren't compatible [and live in ~/.ruby_inline for all versions of ruby].
Also I'm not sure if rev binaries are compatible with both
simultaneously.
But anyway I'm only using one version of 1.8 so we're ok there 
Thanks!
-=r
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> 1.9.1, on the other hand, get gems installed in ~/.gem/ruby/1.9.1
Oh gotcha thanks for pointing it out. I thought for some reason that
they shared a bin directory.> 1.8.6 and 1.8.7 are supposed to be compatible.
For me they have been all except ruby inline, whose generated .so files
aren't compatible [and live in ~/.ruby_inline for all versions of ruby].
Also I'm not sure if rev binaries are compatible with both
simultaneously.
I should have highlighted "supposed" in my previous sentence, but that
something most of the users are aware of 
RubyInline needs to be fixed to workaround that, definitely.
But anyway I'm only using one version of 1.8 so we're ok there
I have multiple 1.8.6 versions installed, but zero for 1.8.7
Regards,
On Feb 7, 4:39 pm, Roger Pack <rogerpack2...@gmail.com> wrote:
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