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`gem install` is painful

by mwunsch —

I wrote a blog post about Installing Gems.

It turns out the super simple use case for installing a command line tool written in Ruby and packaged as a gem is not simple at all. In fact, it’s downright hard. I walk through a few of the barriers and some of the solutions.

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For user installs, use gem install --user your-gem and add “$HOME/.gem/ruby-1.8.7/bin” (or equivalent) to your PATH.

zimbatm —

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