Ruby issue: Installed gems are not in path

Ruby issue: Installed gems are not in path

[Tallak Tveide]

When installing gems with the packaged Ruby, any command line binaries
that are included with installed gems are not available in the path.

When the gems have previously (meaning in an earlier installed version
of Ruby) been installed, they work as expected. I suspect this is
because the binaries in /usr/bin/xxx are already present before
installing the gem anew.

I have seen the same behavior on a colleage's machine

Example:

$ gem install t
Fetching: simple_oauth-0.3.0.gem (100%)
Successfully installed simple_oauth-0.3.0
Fetching: naught-1.0.0.gem (100%)
Successfully installed naught-1.0.0
<lots more output>
$ t
-bash: t: command not found

$ ruby --version
ruby 2.0.0p594 (2014-10-27) [i386-cygwin]

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 NOR-4911GS1 1.7.33-2(0.280/5/3) 2014-11-13 15:45 i686 Cygwin

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Re: Ruby issue: Installed gems are not in path

[Kevin Connor Arpe]

Command "gem environment" should tell you where the binaries are installed.

I had the same issue on Friday.  All the Googling I did couldn't help.
With a bit of luck, I discovered the binaries are usually installed in
"~/bin" for Cygwin.

Does it work for you?

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Tallak Tveide <tallak@tveide.net> wrote:
> When installing gems with the packaged Ruby, any command line binaries
> that are included with installed gems are not available in the path.
>
> When the gems have previously (meaning in an earlier installed version
> of Ruby) been installed, they work as expected. I suspect this is
> because the binaries in /usr/bin/xxx are already present before
> installing the gem anew.
>
> I have seen the same behavior on a colleage's machine
>
> Example:
>
> $ gem install t
> Fetching: simple_oauth-0.3.0.gem (100%)
> Successfully installed simple_oauth-0.3.0
> Fetching: naught-1.0.0.gem (100%)
> Successfully installed naught-1.0.0
> <lots more output>
> $ t
> -bash: t: command not found
>
> $ ruby --version
> ruby 2.0.0p594 (2014-10-27) [i386-cygwin]
>
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 NOR-4911GS1 1.7.33-2(0.280/5/3) 2014-11-13 15:45 i686 Cygwin
>
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