Issue #5617 has been updated by vo.x (Vit Ondruch). Here is recent version of the patch against ruby 2.1.0 preview1 http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/ruby.git/tree/ruby-2.1.0-custom-rubygems-location.patch?h=private-ruby-2.1 ---------------------------------------- Feature #5617: Allow install RubyGems into dediceted directory https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5617#change-42417 Author: vo.x (Vit Ondruch) Status: Assigned Priority: Normal Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Category: build Target version: next minor Hello, I would like to propose my patch, which allows to optionally install RubyGems library into dedicated directory, out of the default Ruby directory structure. This should enable to easily share one RubyGems library by more Ruby implementations and avoids code duplication. I did this patch since Fedora prohibits duplication of system libraries [1], which would be the case if MRI and JRuby are installed in parallel. Thank you for considering this patch. Vit [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Duplication_of_system_libraries -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/