Installing ruby gems?

[JoeP]

Is it possible for us to install our own ruby gems? If so, how is it done?
Thanks,
Joe

[eddye]

I am curious too about that

[mansfiem]

If you are using SSH, I believe you have to request BH to install the desired gem. That's what I have found. A week or two ago I requested them install a flickr gem. They did it within a couple of hours.

[15king]

http://helpdesk.bluehost.com/kb/inde...od_id=2&id=418

[chrsysco]

Originally Posted by 15king

http://helpdesk.bluehost.com/kb/inde...od_id=2&id=418

I made the changes to the .bachrc file but when I try to

% gem install sources-0.0.1.gem

I get an error
"ERROR: Error installing gem sources-0.0.1.gem[.gem]: You don't have write permissions into the /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 directory."

any ideas?

[charlesgan]

Originally Posted by chrsysco

I made the changes to the .bachrc file but when I try to

% gem install sources-0.0.1.gem

I get an error
"ERROR: Error installing gem sources-0.0.1.gem[.gem]: You don't have write permissions into the /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 directory."

any ideas?

hi, refer to this tutorial.
http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/RubyInstallation
seem like you can install to home directory. but i havent try this. just search around and learning

[mitchm]

Originally Posted by chrsysco

I made the changes to the .bachrc file but when I try to

% gem install sources-0.0.1.gem

I get an error
"ERROR: Error installing gem sources-0.0.1.gem[.gem]: You don't have write permissions into the /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 directory."

any ideas?

This methods worked for me. If you modified your .bashrc file from the shell, you will have to do "source ~/.bashrc" to load the new environment. After that it works fine.

[hosam119]

What is Gems


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[bambino_tostare]

Originally Posted by mitchm

This methods worked for me. If you modified your .bashrc file from the shell, you will have to do "source ~/.bashrc" to load the new environment. After that it works fine.

I was having the same issue with permission stopping me from installing gems. I did "source ~/.bashrc" (after modifying the bashrc file according to the tutorial), and now i can install gems. However, my app still can't seem to use the gems. For example, i'm trying to use hpricot. I installed it ok on the server (well, it installed anyway, perhaps not in the right place), and i added

require 'hpricot'

to my environment.rb. But the app crashes because it can't find the gem - commenting out the require makes it work again.

In the tutorial, it says you should add the following line to your environment.rb:

ENV['GEM_PATH'] = '/path/to/your/home/.gems:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8'

now, path/to/your/home looks like it's meant to be replaced with, well, the path to my home. But what does it mean by home? Is it the root folder that has the file .gems? When i change it to


ENV['GEM_PATH'] = '~/.gems:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8'
or
ENV['GEM_PATH'] = '~/../../../.gems:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8'

or similar variations, it doesn't seem to make any difference.

Has anyone else had a similar experience, or know how to fix this? thanks

[rogerdpack]

/path/to/home is something like /home/username [replace username with yours]