GEM_HOME is where the party's at

I was having an issue when I issued the following command:

c:\myrailsapp\mongrel_rails start

..buncha error stuff...
mongrel_service/init.rb (LoadError)

This was partly my fault. Since I had been trying to load local gems and setting my gem repository to the current. At anyrate, here is the following info to know about GEM_HOME and GEM_PATH.

  • GEM_PATH
    • This is where the gems are that will be "read"
  • GEM_HOME
    • Should the gems need to write anything, this is where they will be written to