Where do gems install?

ruby-on-rails rubygems
Trip picture Trip · Aug 4, 2010 · Viewed 75.2k times · Source

I'm trying to edit one of the gem's config files and I can't find it. I'm not sure how I did this in the past.

Answer

theIV picture theIV · Aug 4, 2010

Look at your gem environment.

In a terminal run gem env

You should see an entry INSTALLATION DIRECTORY, but there is also GEM PATHS which is where it's loading all your gems from in your current environment.

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