# Rubygems install in HOME for Ruby 1.9? **URL:** \ **Category:** ruby-talk\ **Created:** [23 January 2008 10:34 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rubygems-install-in-home-for-ruby-1-9/43977 "2008-01-23T10:34:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unbewusst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ba9def/32.png) [@unbewusst](https://rubytalk.org/u/unbewusst)\ **Post date:** [23 January 2008 10:34 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rubygems-install-in-home-for-ruby-1-9/43977/1 "2008-01-23T10:34:56Z")
i've installed rubygems 0.9.5 with ruby 1.9 lying in my HOME but i get only a gems/1.8/ directory. then i think i didn't use to correct version of rubygems ? is that right ? what is the best way to get rubygems working with ruby 1.9 installed in HOME ??? i'm running over Mac OS X 10.4.11 apart from apple's ruby i do have also a ruby "MacPort" under /opt... Yvon ---
**Author:** ![Thomas\_Wieczorek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@Thomas\_Wieczorek](https://rubytalk.org/u/Thomas_Wieczorek)\ **Post date:** [23 January 2008 10:53 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rubygems-install-in-home-for-ruby-1-9/43977/2 "2008-01-23T10:53:31Z")
> i've installed rubygems 0.9.5 with ruby 1.9 lying in my HOME but i get > only a gems/1.8/ directory. > > then i think i didn't use to correct version of rubygems ? is that > right ? > > what is the best way to get rubygems working with ruby 1.9 installed > in HOME ??? > > i'm running over Mac OS X 10.4.11 I have no idea about OSX, but I think you can update your rubygems easily if you go in the ~/ruby/bin directory(gem is located there) and use > sudo gem update --system to update your Rubygems. I hope that helps. > **···** > > On Jan 23, 2008 11:34 AM, unbewusst \ wrote: ---
**Author:** ![Stefano\_Crocco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Stefano\_Crocco](https://rubytalk.org/u/Stefano_Crocco)\ **Post date:** [23 January 2008 12:50 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rubygems-install-in-home-for-ruby-1-9/43977/3 "2008-01-23T12:50:49Z")
Alle Wednesday 23 January 2008, unbewusst ha scritto: > i've installed rubygems 0.9.5 with ruby 1.9 lying in my HOME but i get > only a gems/1.8/ directory. > > then i think i didn't use to correct version of rubygems ? is that > right ? > > what is the best way to get rubygems working with ruby 1.9 installed > in HOME ??? > > i'm running over Mac OS X 10.4.11 > > apart from apple's ruby i do have also a ruby "MacPort" under /opt... > > Yvon I installed ruby 1.9 alongside ruby 1.8 on my linux system without any trouble. I don't know Mac OS X, but I heard is Unix based, so I think you can use the steps I took, at least as a starting point. Ruby 1.8 and rubygems were installed using my OS package manager, under the /usr directory. So I had: /usr/bin/ruby18 /usr/bin/ruby (a symlink to /usr/bin/ruby18) /usr/bin/gem18 /usr/bin/gem (a symlink to /usr/bin/gem18) /usr/lib/ruby/1.8 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 I decided to install ruby 1.9 in the /usr/local directory. You can choose any other directory, of course, but you should make sure that it has a bin subdirectory which is in you PATH. Moreover, I decided to install it using appending the '19' suffix to the name of the programs, so that I could call ruby 1.8 (which should remain the default one) with ruby and the new one with ruby19. After downloading and extracting the ruby-1.9 tarball, I issued the following commands: cd ruby-1.9.0-0 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --program-suffix=19 make sudo make install With this, the following files and directories (among others) were created: /usr/local/bin/ruby19 /usr/local/bin/irb19 ... /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9 I then downloaded the tgz package (version 1.0.1) from the rubygems rubyforge page ([http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=126&release\_id=17305\](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126&release_id=17305%5C)), extracted it and did: cd rubygems-1.0.1 sudo ruby19 setup.rb It's important to notice I had to use ruby19 to install rubygems, not ruby. This installed the rubygems .rb files in /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.9.0 and created the file /usr/local/bin/gem19. To check that everything worked, I tried installing the rake gem: sudo gem19 install rake (again note, I called the 1.9 version of gem) This created the directory /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.0 and installed rake under it. I hope this helps Stefano ---
**Author:** ![unbewusst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ba9def/32.png) [@unbewusst](https://rubytalk.org/u/unbewusst)\ **Post date:** [23 January 2008 10:59 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rubygems-install-in-home-for-ruby-1-9/43977/4 "2008-01-23T10:59:58Z")
OK, fine, thanks, i'll try that asap... > **···** > > On 23 jan, 11:53, Thomas Wieczorek \ wrote: > > > On Jan 23, 2008 11:34 AM, unbewusst \ wrote: > > > > \> i've installed rubygems 0.9.5 with ruby 1.9 lying in my HOME but i get > > \> only a gems/1.8/ directory. > > > > \> then i think i didn't use to correct version of rubygems ? is that > > \> right ? > > > > \> what is the best way to get rubygems working with ruby 1.9 installed > > \> in HOME ??? > > > > \> i'm running over Mac OS X 10.4.11 > > > > I have no idea about OSX, but I think you can update your rubygems > > easily if you go in the ~/ruby/bin directory(gem is located there) and > > \> sudo gem update --system > > > > to update your Rubygems. I hope that helps. ---
**Author:** ![Joel\_VanderWerf1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/94ad74/32.png) [@Joel\_VanderWerf1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Joel_VanderWerf1)\ **Post date:** [23 January 2008 18:02 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rubygems-install-in-home-for-ruby-1-9/43977/5 "2008-01-23T18:02:56Z")
Stefano Crocco wrote: > After downloading and extracting the ruby-1.9 tarball, I issued the following commands: > > cd ruby-1.9.0-0 > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --program-suffix=19 > make > sudo make install > > With this, the following files and directories (among others) were created: > > /usr/local/bin/ruby19 > /usr/local/bin/irb19 > ... > /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9 Didn't this install /usr/local/bin/gem19, as well? > **···** > > -- >        vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407 ---
**Author:** ![Unbewusst\_Sein2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Unbewusst\_Sein2](https://rubytalk.org/u/Unbewusst_Sein2)\ **Post date:** [25 January 2008 14:00 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rubygems-install-in-home-for-ruby-1-9/43977/6 "2008-01-25T14:00:07Z")
OK, fine, thanks, i needed the magick of "--program-suffix=19" ))) > **···** > > Stefano Crocco \ wrote: > > > /configure --prefix=/usr/local --program-suffix=19 > > -- > Une Bévue ---
**Author:** ![Stefano\_Crocco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Stefano\_Crocco](https://rubytalk.org/u/Stefano_Crocco)\ **Post date:** [23 January 2008 19:17 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rubygems-install-in-home-for-ruby-1-9/43977/7 "2008-01-23T19:17:27Z")
Alle Wednesday 23 January 2008, Joel VanderWerf ha scritto: > Stefano Crocco wrote: > \> After downloading and extracting the ruby-1.9 tarball, I issued the > \> following commands: > \> > \> cd ruby-1.9.0-0 > \> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --program-suffix=19 > \> make > \> sudo make install > \> > \> With this, the following files and directories (among others) were > \> created: > \> > \> /usr/local/bin/ruby19 > \> /usr/local/bin/irb19 > \> ... > \> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9 > > Didn't this install /usr/local/bin/gem19, as well? You're right! When I installed ruby 1.9, I didn't even think to check whether gems were included with it, and assumed I had to install it manually, just as with 1.8. Stefano ---
**Author:** ![Unbewusst\_Sein2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Unbewusst\_Sein2](https://rubytalk.org/u/Unbewusst_Sein2)\ **Post date:** [25 January 2008 18:34 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rubygems-install-in-home-for-ruby-1-9/43977/8 "2008-01-25T18:34:56Z")
both ways updating rubygems failed with : ~%\> sudo gem19 update --system Updating RubyGems... Updating metadata for 489 gems from [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) ...... [...] ...... complete Attempting remote update of rubygems-update Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.0.1 1 gem installed Updating version of RubyGems to 1.0.1 Installing RubyGems 1.0.1 setup.rb:12:in `\': uninitialized constant Config (NameError) > **···** > > Stefano Crocco \ wrote: > > > \> Didn't this install /usr/local/bin/gem19, as well? > > > > You're right! When I installed ruby 1.9, I didn't even think to check whether > > gems were included with it, and assumed I had to install it manually, just as > > with 1.8. > > -- > Une Bévue ---
**Author:** ![Eric\_Hodel1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9adbd/32.png) [@Eric\_Hodel1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Eric_Hodel1)\ **Post date:** [25 January 2008 19:51 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/rubygems-install-in-home-for-ruby-1-9/43977/9 "2008-01-25T19:51:11Z")
There is no need to do this. Ruby 1.9.0 has the latest RubyGems. > **···** > > On Jan 25, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Une Bévue wrote: > > > Stefano Crocco \ wrote: > > > > > > Didn't this install /usr/local/bin/gem19, as well? > > > > > > You're right! When I installed ruby 1.9, I didn't even think to check whether > > > gems were included with it, and assumed I had to install it manually, just as > > > with 1.8. > > > > both ways updating rubygems failed with : > > > > ~%\> sudo gem19 update --system