Eric Hodel wrote: > On Dec 28, 2006, at 10:17, dc wrote: > >> gems is great but it kind of hides the code. id like to download >> certain gems and customize/build on them. >> >> is there a way to tell a gem to install to a particular directory? >> >> and if an app is built on a gem, to then run it using all the gem >> source local in that dir rather than in /usr/local/lib ... > > The GEM_HOME environment variable is the catch-all way, but there are > also arguments to gem install. RubyGems does not know how to search > multiple directories for gems. Can you clarify on this? Reading http://rubygems.org/read/chapter/11 it seems to support multiple gem directories. Am I wrong? Stefan