Sharing gems in multiruby

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Need to use multiruby with gems? Do what I do and share them with your existing gems:

% cd ~/.multiruby/install
% rm -rf */lib/ruby/gems  
% for DIR in */lib/ruby; do
> ln -s /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems $DIR/gems
> done

Then test with something easy like:

% multiruby -rubygems -e 'require "inline"'

Remember, use this method only when you aren't testing version dependent binary gems!!

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