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Uberto
Asked: 2010-12-22 05:40:02 +0800 CST

rake command line

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Is there a way in Ubuntu to have rake commands (Ruby) available on the command line?

I solved adding the following line to bashrc, but I think there should be a better way.

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin

Have I forgot something?

environment-variables ruby

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  1. Best Answer

    You can use RVM, it's a really great system to manage you ruby version and add all command needed in your PATH.

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  2. That is sufficient to allow you to run all executables that were installed from gems for Ruby 1.8 from the command line without using the full path. They are technically available already but you have to type the full path eg.

    /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/some-command arguments

    Adding /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin to your $PATH is a perfectly valid shortcut to allow you to use the executables as normal commands eg.

    some-command arguments
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