I want to try fumbling with Ruby and especially all the cool Gems.
Simply using rubygems is causing annoyances, so after searching online and consulting wiser people I am trying out Bundler.
Using Bundler does require one manual gem installation, namely Bundler itself.
First, I set the path for installed gems by adding the following to my .zshrc:
export GEM_HOME="$HOME/.gems"
I did not set gemhome in my .gemrc file since $HOME and ~ were not expanded.
Running gem env reveals that the executable directory is $GEM_HOME/bin, which I add to my PATH.
Bundler is now installed by running
gem install bundler
Bundler’s webpage describes how to manage gems.
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