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

#1

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.

Reported by Chad Woolley · May 20th, 2008 @ 12:23 AM

State: open
Milestone: 1.0 Release
Assigned to: Chad Woolley Chad Woolley

Activity

  1. Chad Woolley
    Chad Woolley
    • Milestone set to 1.0 Release

    May 20th, 2008 @ 12:38 AM

  2. Chad Woolley
    Chad Woolley
    • Tag set 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.

    October 25th, 2008 @ 10:00 AM

  3. Chad Woolley
    Chad Woolley

    Update. Need to confirm from RubyGems dev team whether the default autoinstall to ~/.gem will stick around under Ruby 1.9...

    February 23rd, 2009 @ 02:43 AM

  4. Chad Woolley
    Chad Woolley
    • State changed from new to open

    February 23rd, 2009 @ 02:43 AM

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