[DRE-maint] Bug#654550: Bug#654550: rbenv: Should work seamlessly with system rubygems.

[Matijs van Zuijlen]

On 01/08/2012 09:14 PM, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> Also, note that when you call `gem1.8`, your are specifically requesting
> ruby 1.8, so there is not much we can do to stop the program installed
> from runninnd under ruby1.8
>
> rbenv can only help you (with the approach I proposed in the previous
> message) if you call `gem` and without sudo.

That is true, but as it currently works, running gem without sudo complains 
(rightly) that it cannot write in the global gem directory. This is why I had to 
resort to calling gem1.8 directly with sudo. Your proposed solution would 
thankfully make this unnecessary.

Kind regards,
-- 
Matijs