Sudoless, brewed rubygems on OS X
brew install rbenv ruby-build
Upgrade gem so it honors the bindir:
sudo gem update --system
Add to your ~/.zshrc
or ~/.bash_profile
:
export RBENV_ROOT="$(brew --prefix rbenv)"
export GEM_HOME="$(brew --prefix)/opt/gems"
export GEM_PATH="$(brew --prefix)/opt/gems"
Or your fish_config:
set -x RBENV_ROOT (brew --prefix rbenv)
set -x PATH $RBENV_ROOT/bin $PATH
set -x PATH $RBENV_ROOT/shims $PATH
set -x GEM_HOME (brew --prefix)/opt/gems
set -x GEM_PATH (brew --prefix)/opt/gems
And finally your ~/.gemrc
:
gem: -n/usr/local/bin
You might also want to update gem again for the brewed install. (So without sudo.)
Bonus points for upgrading ruby:
rbenv install 2.0.0-p195
rbenv global 2.0.0-p195
Resulting in:
~ gem env
RubyGems Environment:
- RUBYGEMS VERSION: 2.0.3
- RUBY VERSION: 2.0.0 (2013-05-14 patchlevel 195) [x86_64-darwin12.3.0]
- INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/local/opt/gems
- RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/local/opt/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p195/bin/ruby
- EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/local/opt/gems/bin
- RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
- ruby
- x86_64-darwin-12
- GEM PATHS:
- /usr/local/opt/gems
- GEM CONFIGURATION:
- :update_sources => true
- :verbose => false
- :backtrace => false
- :bulk_threshold => 1000
- "gem" => "-n/usr/local/bin --no-rdoc --no-ri"
- REMOTE SOURCES:
- https://rubygems.org/
Alternatively, in a certain surf-oriented release (or better), Ruby 2.0 is already installed. Use the gemrc
, GEM_HOME
, and GEM_PATH
changes along with this hack (probably only necessary in Seed 1):
sys_rb_usr=/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr
sdk_rb_usr=`xcode-select -p`/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.9.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr
sudo cp -r $sdk_rb_usr/include $sys_rb_usr/include
Written by Zachary Waldowski
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Do not forget to add the rbenv init to your .bash_profile as described here: https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv
over 1 year ago
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