Configuring rubygems
After spending ages meticulously installing gems with
matthouse [~] > sudo gem install some-random-gem --no-ri --no-rdoc
I finally got round to trying to find a better way. It turns out that rubygems has it's own config file, which is cool. It's located at ~/.gemrc and is a simple yaml file. My gemrc now looks like this:
:update_sources: true :sources: - http://gems.rubyforge.org/ - http://gems.github.com :backtrace: false :verbose: true gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc
You can find out more about the options by running
matthouse [~] > gem help environment
The options in my config file work as follows
- Sources: kind of speaks for itself
- backtrace: whether gem will show you stack traces on install errors
- update_sources: this tells gem to automatically update it's own sources when you install a gem
- verbose: this defines how much information gem will spit out to stdout
- gem: these are the important ones, the flags that are passed to gem on the command line
