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Created January 14, 2011 20:31
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This actually should probably belong at the top of your config.ru file. The purpose is to change the GEM_HOME environment variable and then tell RubyGems to look there for gems for now on.
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custom_gem_path_rails3.rb
# Specify your own GEM_HOME, but keep the standard gem path in GEM_PATH
ENV['GEM_HOME'] = "#{ENV['HOME']}/.gems"
ENV['GEM_PATH'] = "#{ENV['GEM_HOME']}:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8"
require 'rubygems'
Gem.clear_paths
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iamvery commented Jan 14, 2011

This was critical for me when I was trying to deploy a Rails 3 app on a Dreamhost shared server. http://discussion.dreamhost.com/thread-128599.html

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