I've installed REE on CentOS 5 for a very special task (using rails 2.3.10 and ruby 1.8) and I really need it to be isolated
In this case I won't use bundler or smth so.
Everything works ok if I'll setup every gem manually via
/opt/ree/bin/gem install agem
But when I run
/opt/ree/bin/rake gems:install
in prepared for this command project - all (or most, I haven't check every dependency) gems are installed via /usr/bin/gem into common gem path, where I do not need any of them
This is an issue and I do not want to install all gems manually. Have smb ever hit into this issue and probably knows solution?
Solution that really helped me was to temporarily replace /usr/bin/gem with a symbolic link to /opt/ree/bin/gem
With this replacement /opt/ree/bin/rake gems:intall worked as expected - all required gems were installed to REE path - returning /usr/bin/gem to original gem executable made system stable again
This is not very clean solution but it works, so it can be used like hammer in critical situation.