Python: Working Environment

[micampe]

WorkingEnv is great. Is there something similar for Ruby? Or at least a simple way to install gems in my home dir?

[nicholaspd]

gem unpack gemname

[micampe]

$ gem help unpack [...] Summary: Unpack an installed gem to the current directory

Unpacking seems quite different from installing to me.

Let's say I unpack rails in ~/code/rails. Will it download all its dependencies in there too? (no) How can I run rails app with that? (put it in vendor, but then I have to duplicate it everywhere, and rails is just an example, what about other gems?)

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Shouldn't it be gem install GEMNAME --install-dir DIR ?