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By default, when you sudo gem install thegemname it will install executables into /usr/bin/
Is there a way to change this? For example, to install them into /usr/local/rubygems/bin (or any other path)?
The path doesn’t seem to be hard-coded into the gemspec file, so I don’t see why this shouldn’t be possible (although I have very little experience with Ruby/Gems)
See http://www.rubygems.org/read/chapter/11 and specify a
~/.gemrcwhich defines a gemhome variable.For example:
You can also place this file in
/etc/gemrcAlternatively you can set the
GEM_HOMEenv-variable:Update (10 years later):
Andrey Rodionov below suggest using