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You are a Python developer and every time you have to install a Ruby gem you throw up in your mouth a little. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could install Ruby gems into your virtualenv? Yeah, it would.
Stick this in your virtualenv’s postactivate script:
export GEM_HOME="$VIRTUAL_ENV/gems"
export GEM_PATH=""
export PATH=$PATH:"$GEM_HOME/bin"
That’s it! You’re welcome. :)
Give credit where credit is due. I stole this idea from Idan Gazit and made it better.
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