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

[isaac kearse]

Thanks Mark, that is definitely what I was looking for.  I think once
that ticket is resolved my setup should work fine.  I am happy for
/usr/local/bin to be after /usr/bin in my path, because I currently
use the MRI gem binaries more than the MacRuby gem binaries.

Cheers,
Isaac

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Mark Rada <mrada at marketcircle.com> wrote:
> I believe you want to comment on this ticket:
>
> http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/574
>
> However, I'm thinking that installing to /usr/local/bin instead only solves overwriting the commands. You still have to deal with which directory comes first in your $PATH.
>
> Personally, I use rvm to solve this problem. However, it comes with its own set of trade-offs.
>
> Mark Rada
> mrada at marketcircle.com
>
>
>
> On 2011-06-30, at 10:07 PM, isaac kearse 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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