Installing Ruby gems not working with Home Brew

Question

The gems I install via sudo gem install ... can\'t be executed (I get a command not found). They seem to install into /usr/local/Cellar/

Answer 1

You can be fine with ruby installed by homebrew too.. You just lack the functionality of custom gemsets with homebrew.

first do:

sudo nano /etc/paths

this will bring up nano editor,

then add the following to the paths:

/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/bin

your version of ruby will probably vary.

Thats it. It should now detect your gems.

Oh, btw, you need to Ctrl+X > y > ENTER to save a file in nano.