>I don't want to be forced to imagine that every Ruby programmer writes
>his own script, in which he moves the appropriate files into
>/usr/local/bin, -share, -lib, -man etc.

>How do you handle this issue?

I've never done the man pages, but I often create symbolic links and place
those in the bin directories.

syntax:

ln -s <link file> <target file>

HTH,

Zach