could I also maybe stick to 1.8 ? I don't know if I really need 1.9
for anything and it's just mucking up some stuff. maybe it's not
useful to have both installed, and maybe it's downright ill-advised?

On 8/8/07, Eric Hodel <drbrain / segment7.net> wrote:
> On Aug 8, 2007, at 18:13, Simon Schuster wrote:
>
> > an update: I CAN require 'rubygems' if I start irb from the
> > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8 directory, which is where I found rubygems.rb ...
> > there's also this:
> >
> > irb(main):003:0> $:
> > => ["/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.9",
> > "/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.9/i486-linux",
> > "/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.9/i386-linux", "/usr/local/lib/site_ruby",
> > "/usr/lib/ruby/1.9", "/usr/lib/ruby/1.9/i486-linux",
> > "/usr/lib/ruby/1.9/i386-linux", "."]
> >
> > the "." being the only reason it found rubygems this time. so, that
> > being the problem, I'm having a bit of a problem finding how can I
> > change/add paths for irb/ruby/wherever that's configured.
>
> You need to install rubygems for ruby 1.9 as well as 1.8.
>
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