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LiveReload applies CSS/JS changes to Safari or Chrome w/o reloading the page (and autoreloads the page when HTML changes)
http://livereload.com/
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Improved gem management #40

Closed kneath closed 13 years ago

kneath commented 13 years ago

I modified the README to better cooperate with modern gem management. If you are using a tool like homebrew, or installing gems in your home directory, there's no need for sudo. If you require sudo, you can still add it on — but in general the ruby community is moving away from this approach.

I also removed the gem update calls, as I couldn't see any reason they were listed there...

NV commented 13 years ago

If you're using homebrew, you're most certainly know what sudo is.

Let's say I'm a HTML/CSS guy who haven't written any Ruby code. I have no idea what gem and sudo are. I use Mac OS X 10.6 that ships with Ruby in /usr/bin/ruby.

$ gem install livereload
WARNING:  Installing to ~/.gem since /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 and
      /usr/bin aren't both writable.
WARNING:  You don't have /Users/nv/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin in your PATH,
      gem executables will not run.
Successfully installed livereload-1.4
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for livereload-1.4...
Installing RDoc documentation for livereload-1.4...
$ livereload
-bash: livereload: command not found

It doesn't work! I have to idea what's going on. How would I know what I have to either add PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin into my .profile or run sudo gem install livereload?

andreyvit commented 13 years ago

NV: +1

kneath: sorry, you made a good point, but the Ruby community is not ready yet to give up sudo out of the box. Closing this ticket.