<p>Is it currently possible with pre release of ironruby to run rubygems? It seems as if I have to set an environment variable to find them? </p>

[{'answer_id': 44976, 'author': 'Curt Hagenlocher', 'author_id': 533, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/533', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>if you set ENV[\'GEM_PATH\'] correctly before using rubygems, then gems will work <em>sometimes</em> under IronRuby.  I\'m actually looking at fixing this right now.</p>\n\n<p>Also, this kind of question is probably better suited for the <a href="http://rubyforge.org/mail/?group_id=4359" rel="nofollow noreferrer">IronRuby mailing list</a> than it is for StackOverflow.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 44986, 'author': 'Orion Edwards', 'author_id': 234, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/234', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>You\'ve been able to run rubygems under IronRuby for quite a while now. Simply download and install the latest <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/Wikipage?ProjectName=ironruby" rel="noreferrer">IronRuby from codeplex</a>, and run <code>igem</code> on the command line</p>\n<hr />\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Original Answer:</strong></p>\n<p>I\'m on that mailing list - to save you the digging, someone asked this a few weeks ago, and <a href="http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/ironruby-core/2008-August/002688.html" rel="noreferrer">this was the answer</a></p>\n<p>The answer (at this point) is no, you can\'t, but it doesn\'t seem like it\'ll be too far away.</p>\n<p>PS: listen to curt. He\'s on the core team for ironruby. &lt;3</p>\n</blockquote>\n'}, {'answer_id': 488664, 'author': 'Jirapong', 'author_id': 28843, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/28843', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>with IronRuby 1.0 Alpha 2. You should able to get igem.bat out of the box. According to Jim Deville on Nov 19 2008</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>Announcing the release of IronRuby 1.0 Alpha 2. You can download it on RubyForge (<a href="http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=4359" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=4359</a>), I will have a tag in SVN soon. Notable features: the inclusion of iirb.bat, igem.bat, irails.bat, irake.bat! This is our first standalone release. Two caveats: If you want caller to work correctly, use -X:Interpret. If you want Rubygems to work, ensure that all of your sources end with a /. You can check in ~/.gemrc</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Since then, We\'re now have official site with daily build. You can find at <a href="http://www.ironruby.net/Download" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><a href="http://www.ironruby.net/Download" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.ironruby.net/Download</a></a></p>\n\n<p>After than,\nSet GEM_PATH to your \\lib\\ruby\\gems\\1.8 directory, e.g. c:\\ruby\\lib\\ruby\\gems\\1.8</p>\n\n<pre><code>c:\\&gt; set GEM_PATH=c:\\ruby\\lib\\ruby\\gems\\1.8\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Test with</p>\n\n<pre><code>c:\\&gt; igem.bat\n</code></pre>\n'}]
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