RVM not picking up /etc/gemrc

Question

in a system wide RVM .... heres my /etc/gemrc

---
gem:--no-ri --no-rdoc

heres the system gem env

 GEM PATHS:
     - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1
     - /home/${USER}/.gem/ruby/1.9.1
    GEM CONFIGURATION:
         - :update_sources => true
         - :verbose => true
         - :benchmark => false
         - :backtrace => false
         - :bulk_threshold => 1000
         - "gem" => "--no-ri --no-rdoc"

and heres the one in rvm

GEM PATHS:
 - /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180
 - /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@global
GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :benchmark => false
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000

and rvm @global

    GEM PATHS:
     - /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180
     - /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@global
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :benchmark => false
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000

why is it not picking up the gemrc file?

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered May 30 '11 at 01:00

7

Same here. Try this path:

/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/etc/gemrc

To get the path:

$ irb
>> require 'etc'
>> Etc.sysconfdir 
 => "/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/etc"

answered May 30 '11 at 01:00

Justin Case

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that will sandbox it only to ruby-1.9.2-p180 correct? – jtzero Jun 10 '11 at 12:47
@jtzero correct – Justin Case Jun 11 '11 at 21:34
see the problem with that is I don't want an rdocs on the server, on any version of ruby... – jtzero Jun 21 '11 at 14:50

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 07 '12 at 02:30

you need to specify --sysconfdir=/etc for every ruby you compile, you could do that with:

rvm reinstall 1.9.3 -C --sysconfdir=/etc

of course there was a bug in rubygems that caused all 1.8 rubies to use /etc it will be fixed with https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/291

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 26 '13 at 06:45

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Try putting the gemrc file in /usr/local/etc - it should be picked up by all custom compiled rubies.

tee /usr/local/etc/gemrc <<EOF
gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc
EOF

answered Jun 26 '13 at 06:45

zaius

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 21 '13 at 16:01

1

The reason is that you're supposed to use the name of the command you want to add those arguments to, not gem. For example:

---
install: --no-ri --no-rdoc

Note the install, instead of gem.

answered Oct 21 '13 at 16:01

phemmer

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered May 26 '11 at 22:32

0

It seems to be something 1.9.2 related as rvm installed 1.8.7 is picking up the /etc/gemrc file I ended up symlinking ~/.gemrc to /etc/gemrc

answered May 26 '11 at 22:32

Piavlo

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yeah that's my current work around however I have to do that for each dev-user that is created....I could make it so that every time a user is added to copy the symlink and it will work but I dont like it.... – jtzero Jun 10 '11 at 12:52

RVM not picking up /etc/gemrc

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