Bug #15828: DOTfiles and DOTfolders aren't allowed in $HOME folder on Haiku

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.6.3p62 (2019-04-16 revision 67580) [x86_64-haiku]
• Backport: 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN

[extrowerk (Zoltán Mizsei)]

According to the guidelines, no program should create any file directly in $HOME

For config files we should use the ~/config/settings/ruby folder for .rubyrc (<- this file also should have no dot at the beginning!)
For --user-install the gem files should go into /boot/system/non-packaged/lib/ruby$rubyVersion folder

The system-install path seems to be ok.

I tried to grep the whole source tree, but i can't seem to find the correct place, where they defined. Can somebody give me some hints?
Thanks!

[extrowerk (Zoltán Mizsei)]

We need something along theese lines, but integrated as default in ruby:

rubver=`ruby --version | cut -d" " -f2 | cut -d. -f3 --complement`           #had no better idea :(
export RUBY_VER="$rubver.0"
export GEM_PATH="/boot/system/non-packaged/lib/ruby"
export GEM_HOME="$GEM_PATH/$RUBY_VER"
export GEM_SPEC_CACHE="$GEM_PATH/spec"
export BUNDLE_USER_CACHE="$GEM_PATH/bundle"
export PATH="$GEM_HOME/bin/:$PATH"

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

References to dot-files under the HOME in standard libraries are:

• ~/.irbrc by irb
• ~/.options/ by optparse
• ~/.rdoc by rdoc
• ~/.gem/ and ~/.gemrc by RubyGems
• ~/.rb_shell by shell

OptionParser#load now supports XDG base directory specification and Haiku guideline.
irb, rdoc and RubyGems have each upstreams.

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

I'm considering to support XDG guideline with rubygems, irb and etc.

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Frankly speaking, it looks very expensive for Ruby to support Haiku as it is very different from the Unix-like system's convention.

If you really want to fix the issue, please submit the issue to each upstream, as nobu said. I recommend you to create a patch yourself.

https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems
https://github.com/ruby/irb
https://github.com/ruby/rdoc

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

I'm working this at https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/2174

But it's still WIP status. I'm going to try in the next year.