Windows – Linux requires ‘rubygems’ but Windows does not. Why? Can I fix this?

Linux requires ‘rubygems’ but Windows does not. Why? Can I fix this?… here is a solution to the problem.

Linux requires ‘rubygems’ but Windows does not. Why? Can I fix this?

I’m setting up a Linux development environment. After installing Ruby and RubyGems, I quickly discovered that I needed to require 'rubygems‘ to use gems, which I didn’t need to do in Windows Vista. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Should I worry about this?

Solution

You may want to include rubygems by default (especially since Ruby 1.9 now includes by default).

Edit your .bash_profile or equivalent file and add export RUBYOPT=rubygems

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