Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Fedora Project Wiki" for change notification. The following page has been changed by DavidLutterkort: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Devel The comment on the change is: Add blurb about ruby search path changes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Include(/Runtime)]] [[Include(/Tools)]] + == Ruby == + + The standard search path for ruby libraries ($:) has changed in accordance with [:Packaging/Ruby:the packaging guidelines]. This includes changes to some of the entries in `Config::CONFIG` in the rbconfig module. The most important changes are + + * `sitedir` and related directories (`sitelibdir`, `sitearchdir`) are now under `rubylibdir`, i.e. instead of `/usr/lib/site_ruby` they are underneath `/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby` + * The directories for architecture-independent pure-ruby code are alwys under `/usr/lib`, even on x86_64 (where they used to be under `/usr/lib64`) This affects the `Config::CONFIG` entries `rubylibdir` and `sitelibdir` + + Directories that were previously in `$:` remain there for the time being, so that existing code does not need to be modified (such as `/usr/lib/site_ruby`). They are deprecated though, and will be removed for FC8. Ruby RPM's should be built in accordance with the [:Packaging/Ruby:the packaging guidelines]. In particular, ruby libraries should only be installed into `sitelibdir` and `sitearchdir`; the latter should also be followe d for Ruby code that is not packaged as an RPM. +
