From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thompson, David" Subject: Re: RubyGem Local Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:54:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43705) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNMUF-0006aw-1F for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:54:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNMUD-0006g8-1R for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:54:09 -0400 Received: from mail-vk0-x22d.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c05::22d]:36347) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNMUC-0006g3-Sa for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:54:08 -0400 Received: by mail-vk0-x22d.google.com with SMTP id j126so17166919vkg.3 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 08:54:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Daniel Pimentel Cc: guix-devel On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Daniel Pimentel wrote: > Guix, > > I did a hack to RubyGem (Rails and other ruby packages) work on GuixSD: > > echo 'export GEM_HOME="$HOME/.gem"' >> ~.bashrc > echo 'export PATH="$PATH:$GEM_HOME/bin"' ~.bashrc > > Is correct? > > Are there better soluction for it? This is a fine way to do things. It's pretty much exactly what I do at work in my hybrid development environment where I use Guix to provide Ruby and other "system" libraries, and gem to provide all the Ruby stuff. - Dave