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Bourbon fails when installing in an arbitrary local directory

I'm using bourbon in a tornado application. So to install bourbon I wrote this simple make rule:

gems:
    export GEM_HOME=./gems; gem install sass bourbon

Then when I try to run bourbon I get this:

$ ./gems/bin/bourbon
/usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:298:in `to_specs': Could not find 'bourbon' (>= 0) among 9 total gem(s) (Gem::LoadError)
    from /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:309:in `to_spec'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_gem.rb:53:in `gem'
    from ./gems/bin/bourbon:22:in `<main>'

sass appears to work fine. I'm not used to work with ruby gems, so I have no clue what is going on. I apologize if this is a trivial problem.

I posted this same question in bourbon's github.

Solution

  • Ok, I found the problem. When you install gems, changing the GEM_HOME variable (export GEM_HOME=./gems) then, every time you want to use the executables installed by the gems, you should previously set the GEM_HOME variable the same way you did when installing.