RVM not picking up /etc/gemrc

Question

in a system wide RVM .... heres my /etc/gemrc

---
gem:--no-ri --no-rdoc

heres the system gem env

 GEM PATHS:
     - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1
     - /home/${USER}/.gem/ruby/1.9.1
    GEM CONFIGURATION:
         - :update_sources => true
         - :verbose => true
         - :benchmark => false
         - :backtrace => false
         - :bulk_threshold => 1000
         - "gem" => "--no-ri --no-rdoc"

and heres the one in rvm

GEM PATHS:
 - /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180
 - /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@global
GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :benchmark => false
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000

and rvm @global

    GEM PATHS:
     - /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180
     - /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@global
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :benchmark => false
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000

why is it not picking up the gemrc file?

Answer 1

Same here. Try this path:

/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/etc/gemrc

To get the path:

$ irb
>> require 'etc'
>> Etc.sysconfdir 
 => "/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/etc" 

Answer 2

It seems to be something 1.9.2 related as rvm installed 1.8.7 is picking up the /etc/gemrc file I ended up symlinking ~/.gemrc to /etc/gemrc

Answer 3

you need to specify --sysconfdir=/etc for every ruby you compile, you could do that with:

rvm reinstall 1.9.3 -C --sysconfdir=/etc

of course there was a bug in rubygems that caused all 1.8 rubies to use /etc it will be fixed with https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/291