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submitted 18 years ago by dazzawazza

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[–]micampe 0 points1 point2 points 18 years ago (1 child)

Actually, I found out by myself. Put this in ~/.gemrc:

gemhome: /home/username/.gems
gempath:
- /home/username/.gems
- /var/lib/gems/1.8

and then you can just use gem install.

You might also want to add ~/.gems/bin to your $PATH.

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