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Automatically create, use, and manage writeable gem home if system gem home is not writeable

Reported by Chad Woolley | May 20th, 2008 @ 12:23 AM | in 1.0 Release

Catch write exception, and automatically install to and use ~/.gems, with a warning. Warning should tell user to add

~/.gems as default repo in their .gemrc, at which point warning will go away.

Chad Woolley May 20th, 2008 @ 12:38 AM
- → Milestone changed from “” to “1.0 Release”
Chad Woolley October 25th, 2008 @ 10:00 AM
- → Tag changed from “” to “from_rubyforge high_priority”
This is now the default under RubyGems >= 1.3.0, but there are some bugs if you have .gemrc point gemhome and gempath to only ~/.gem, at least on Leopard. See discussion on RubyGems mailing list.

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