Well, on my Fedora system, I have a simple setup. I run a development shell with system Ruby and the following in my .bashrc: export GEM_BIN=/home/user/Code/bin export GEM_PATH=/home/user/Code/.gem export GEM_HOME=/home/user/Code/.gem export PATH=/home/user/Code/bin:$PATH This used to work, I could execute both gem and bundler commands correctly. Now (sometime around Ruby 3.2 upgrade) things changed and I have to set the flags to the gem command (and for instance `--user-install` is handled by `gem install` but not `gem pristine` so I have to use even different flags). Yet again, with each new installation (or upgrade), I have to undertake to make things simply work. I may be able to work things out, even if Gem isn't my expertise, but should we expect for each new user to handle that?  Yes, I understand, a lot of developers use rvm, rbenv or a similar tool. I feel that rvm is too complicated for my usecase (I also got bitten in the past by some of the design choices they made). rbenv, last I checked, was mostly for macOS users. I am aware of asdf and I think this is the closest to what I would call a good manager. I also make a conscious decision to use what's provided by my distro (for example, I trust my distro to provide good binaries more than I trust a `curl | bash` script to do so). But again, while I would say installing gems to a home directory by default was a good choice Fedora made, I would disagree with an idea of distributions having to choose what to do. Sometimes I encounter a Debian server or workstation and then I have to be aware of the extra steps I have to make. All in all, this makes the behavior of `gem` and `bundler` go against a tenet of Ruby that it should "not surprise". On 2/28/23 00:05, Felipe Contreras via ruby-talk wrote:

Hi,

This is the second part of my attempt at fixing gem installation, it's necessary because it's *not yet fixed*.

https://felipec.wordpress.com/2023/02/27/fixing-ruby-gems-installation-part-...

The maintainers of rubygems continue to ignore my solution, despite being the only one that actually works.

The patch is really simple:

https://github.com/felipec/rubygems/commit/68c0127885bc80761eb948963f9d5733b...

And I created an Arch Linux package with the patch and proper overrides:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rubygems-user

It works perfectly.

It has been *twelve years* since the first issue regarding this was reported, hopefully it will get fixed before the end of this decade (could be fixed now if the maintainers simply applied my patch).

Cheers.