14:34 <swistak35> Hi. Is there a way to tell rubygems during installation of some gem, to add one more path to search for libraries? Specifically, I have to install older version of rmagick, however it needs imagemagick compiled with --no-hdri. I could compile this imagemagick version in /opt, and then I would like to tell rmagick to look for imagemagick in /opt. Is it possible?

20:05 <shevy> I can build a new gem

20:05 <shevy> but when I try to install this local gem

20:05 <shevy> ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::Exception)

20:05 <shevy> Unable to require openssl, install OpenSSL and rebuild ruby (preferred) or use non-HTTPS sources

20:05 <shevy> I require openssl

20:05 <shevy> does this behaviour make a lot of sense?

21:19 <Rennex> shevy: makes enough sense to me

21:20 <shevy> Rennex why?

21:21 <shevy> hmm

21:21 <shevy> it seems that my statement was not entirely correct

21:21 <shevy> though I can't test it right now, openssl works

21:21 <Rennex> shevy: well building a gem is just a case of packaging some files, isn't it? but if you can't run that gem, that's a whole different matter

21:22 <shevy> Rennex nono, I mean I built that gem just the second before, it is my own gem too, a "gem install ./foo-1.0.gem" should work even without openssl

21:22 <shevy> but I am unsure how to test again, I recompiled ruby and it finished a few minutes before, and suddenly everything works

21:24 <shevy> and pushing new gems works as well, I am happy

21:24 <Rennex> hmm

21:24 <Rennex> so did you mean your own gem does NOT require openssl?

21:24 <shevy> of course not

21:25 <Rennex> didn't mean or doesn't require?

21:25 <shevy> I just wanted to test stuff, because I could no longer install local gems

21:25 <shevy> it does not use openssl

21:25 <shevy> but I think I found out why, I had a faulty entry in the alias that I used

21:25 <Rennex> ok...

21:25 <shevy> gem install --ignore-dependencies gem -no-ri -no-rdoc

21:26 <shevy> the second gem was a sloppy copy/paste error

21:26 <shevy> not 100% sure that this was the error, perhaps there was more than one error hehehe

21:28 <Rennex> heh, yeah

21:29 <Rennex> as for "unintended" requirements... i feel like i'm being discriminated against these days, when i DON'T put ruby and rubygems under my home directory, but use the system ruby in the old-fashioned way

21:30 <Rennex> on a few occasions i've had to load a gem in a ruby script running as root, because the stupid thing has deferred some installation stuff to the first use, and it just assumes it has write permission to the dir where it's installed. tsk

23:37 <havenwood> is it idiomatic to use `Gem.win_platform?` from a gem?

23:37 <havenwood> win goes by so many names, it'd be handy.. any reason not to use it?

23:37 <havenwood> i'm inclined to, but just curious if there's a caveat