gem install needs --no-user-install

[ericgj]

I don't know if it's due to rbenv or it's the rubygems default nowadays, but I have always needed to gem install foo --no-user-install to get gems to install into .gs . Otherwise they always go into ~/.gem regardless of $GEM_PATH. Am I missing something?

If this is the case, should a line be added to the Readme to this effect?
echo "install: --no-user-install" >> ~/.gemrc is what I did.

[soveran]

That's very strange, I don't think that's how rubygems behaves. Do you think you can try without rbenv?

[ericgj]

Works fine without rbenv, it must be the culprit.

[ericgj]

oops. spoke too soon. No, even without rbenv, gem install still puts gems into ~/.gem.

[soveran]

What are the values of GS_NAME, GEM_HOME and GEM_PATH before running gem install? Also, what happens if you run this:

$ gs echo GEM_HOME

[ericgj]

It looks ok when in the subshell, but not with gs echo $GEM_HOME (but maybe that's because $GEM_HOME gets evaluated by bash before going into the subshell?)

$ mkdir tmp
$ cd tmp
$ echo $GEM_HOME

$ gs init
$ gs
$ echo $GS_NAME
tmp
$ echo $GEM_HOME
/home/egjertsen/tmp/.gs
$ echo $GEM_PATH
/home/egjertsen/tmp/.gs:/home/egjertsen/.gem/ruby/2.0.0:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0
$ exit
$ gs echo $GEM_HOME

Also (not that it's related, but may be related to #4 ), rbenv init gets run again when entering the subshell, duplicating its paths:

$ gs echo $PATH
/home/egjertsen/.rbenv/bin:/home/egjertsen/.gem/ruby/2.0.0/bin:/usr/local/heroku/bin:/home/egjertsen/.rbenv/shims:/home/egjertsen/.rbenv/bin:/home/egjertsen/.gem/ruby/2.0.0/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/core_perl

[soveran]

I think the problem has to do with rbenv init and not with gs. Maybe it will be worth reporting the issue at the rbenv project, what do you think?

[soveran]

I will close this one and refer to #4.