[LRUG] Setting up Ruby + Gems + Rails on OS X

[Paul Campbell]

>> Like Paul, I use the inbuilt Ruby, but I changed the gem location to be
>> local. For bash, this can be done as follows:
>> http://gist.github.com/217895
>>
>
> I'm pretty sure that if you don't have write access to the system gem
> path a gem install will use ~/.gem by default.  I don't know when this
> changed in rubygems but I know it used to complain and now it silently
> puts things in ~/.gem whenever I forget to sudo.

Yeah, I try not to use sudo most of the time. My ~/.bash_profile just has this:

PATH=$PATH:/Users/paul/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin



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