On Jul 18, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Rob Mauchel wrote:

> I have a Ruby script which runs fine on my own machine that I'd like  
> to
> setup a Cronjob for to run on my web space provider's server. The  
> latter
> has been setup so that a number of "system" gems are pre-installed for
> all users in a global gem respository. Any additional gems a user  
> might
> require must be installed by that user using the provider's CPanel
> RubyGem utility, which places such gems into a second, local, user
> specific, gem repository.
>
> For test purposes, I created a script that simply 'requires' two  
> gems -
> the first global and the second local - with a print statement before
> and after.
>
> Initially, I got an error on the first require statement and  
> determined
> that the reason was because the RUBYOPT environment variable was not  
> set
> to -rubygems, as it is on my own machine.
>
> After ensuring that option was specified, I then got an error on the
> second require statement and determined that the reason was because  
> the
> GEM_PATH environment variable was not set to my local (i.e. second)
> respository.
>
> After ensuring that environment variable was set, I no longer got an
> error, but I also didn't get any output from the print statement
> following the two requires.
>
> Taking this to mean that the local gem was not successfully loading, I
> tried adding appending the path to my local gem repository's bin  
> folder
> to the PATH environment variable, but this didn't help any.

Set GEM_HOME to be the user repository, and have the user repository  
come first in GEM_PATH.