On Jul 26, 2009, at 12:30, Perry Smith wrote:
> Is it just me?  I have to put a colon at the front of my attribute  
> names
> so they look like symbols to get anything to work in my .gemrc file.
> i.e. this does NOT work:
>
> ---
> gemhome: /home/pedzsan/ruby/gems
> gempath:
> - /home/pedzsan/ruby/gems
> - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
>
> but this does:
>
> ---
> :gemhome: /home/pedzsan/ruby/gems
> :gempath:
> - /home/pedzsan/ruby/gems
> - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
>
> I'm not sure if this:
>
> http://rubygems.org/read/chapter/11
>
> is suppose to be up to date or if this is a recently introduced bug or
> if my brain is buggy.

Go straight to the source:

gem help env