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rake gems:unpack unnecessarily complains about writability of global gem dir

#2669

If I run rake gems:unpack, rubygems will show the following warning:

   WARNING:  Installing to ~/.gem since /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 and /usr/local/bin aren't both writable.

That, however is very misleading since rails will -correctly- install (unpack) the gems to the vendor/gems directory of the rails application not to ~/.gem.

The writability of the global gem directories (/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8) should not be a concern here so the warning message should simply be suppressed since it only misleads the user.

Reported by Balint Erdi · May 18th, 2009 @ 08:41 AM

State: invalid
Milestone: 2.x
Assigned to: nobody
Importance: none

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  1. Balint Erdi
    Balint Erdi
    • Tag set to gems

    May 18th, 2009 @ 08:41 AM

  2. Balint Erdi
    Balint Erdi
    • Title changed from rake gems:unpack complains about writability of global gem dir to rake gems:unpack unnecessarily complains about writability of global gem dir

    May 18th, 2009 @ 08:42 AM

  3. Pratik
    Pratik
    • State changed from new to invalid

    That sounds like a rubygem bug. But if you could submit a patch showing it's a rails issue, then it'd be great!

    Thanks.

    May 18th, 2009 @ 11:32 AM

  4. Balint Erdi
    Balint Erdi

    You are right. I am running rubygems 1.3.1 and the issue is fixed in 1.3.3

    May 20th, 2009 @ 11:19 AM