@passthejoe I use system ruby by default, and chruby+ruby-install when I need a specific ruby for an app/library/project.
@postmodern For now I got rid of all the distro-supplied gems. I'll try rbenv soon -- I used it on my last OS (CentOS Stream) but not since I've been on Fedora.
@postmodern I never know if I'm supposed to do 'sudo gem install' or just 'gem install'. Do they go to the same place, or does sudoing put it somewhere else?
@postmodern Thank you for this. I imagine I could remove the globals and then reinstall as local.
@postmodern But I guess I should figure out Bundler, or something similar.
@passthejoe bundler is excellent and every professional ruby job I have had relies on it extensively.
@passthejoe bundler is for when you need to isolate and lock down the gem dependencies of an app or library.
@postmodern @passthejoe But it also makes it a lot easier to keep a whole bunch of gems up to date, or to install them on a new machine. If you want to give your code to someone else, it's pretty much standard for that reason. They just type "bundle install".
@passthejoe @postmodern You probably don't need the gem to be available to every user on your computer, so you don't need to sudo it.
@passthejoe check `sudo gem env` vs `gem env`. Installing a gem via sudo causes it to go into /usr/local/share/gems (which is global), where as non-sudo gem install goes into ~/.gem/ (which is local to the user).