[MacRuby-devel] How do people deal with macgem overwriting MRI gem binaries?

[Caio Chassot]

--format-executable may help, as it should prefix everything with mac-, then.

You may even want to put that in your .gemrc for the install and
update commands.

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 04:07, isaac kearse <isaackearse at gmail.com> wrote:
> At the moment macgem will prompt the user with this warning when
> trying to install nokogiri (if you have already installed it with
> MRI):
>
> WARNING:  You are installing a new version of /usr/bin/nokogiri.
> This file already exists with a different shebang, possibly from a different
> ruby implementation or version. This operation may break the script.
> Do you still wish to continue?
>
> Ideally I would like to install macgem binaries in /usr/local/bin -
> does that mean I always have to specify --bindir when installing and
> uninstalling gems with MacRuby?
>
> I guess it is possible to put the --bindir option in the ~/.gemrc
> file, but then it will be picked up by MRI as well as MacRuby I think.
>
> How are other people dealing with this issue?
>
> Cheers,
> Isaac
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