Fix gem exe used by RubyGemsDownloadStrategy

[nicksieger]

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[anfleene]

QA Looks good :shipit:

$ bin/brew-gem install mailcatcher
==> Fetching mailcatcher from gem source
Fetching: mailcatcher-0.6.5.gem (100%)
Downloaded mailcatcher-0.6.5
Warning: Cannot verify integrity of mailcatcher-0.6.5.gem
A checksum was not provided for this resource
For your reference the SHA256 is: 7d8d5bdac5f86b8801c79ba87add11f44ba661a08a10e14231ae44142c9acf40
==> /usr/bin/gem install /Users/anfleene/Library/Caches/Homebrew/mailcatcher-0.6.5.gem --no-ri --no-rdoc --no-wrapper --no-user-install --install-dir /usr/local/Cellar/gem-mailcatcher/0.6.5 --bindir /us
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/gem-mailcatcher/0.6.5: 1,010 files, 12.7MB, built in 26 seconds
bin/brew-gem install mailcatcher  51.64s user 27.83s system 96% cpu 1:22.54 total

[production-status-check[bot]]

:octocat: Has QA approval

[sshaw]

Does not work for me:

~/code/ruby/rack-stuff/nginx-unit-test >brew info brew-gem
brew-gem: stable 0.8.4, HEAD
Install RubyGems as Homebrew formulae
https://github.com/sportngin/brew-gem
/usr/local/Cellar/brew-gem/0.8.4 (10 files, 14.1KB) *
  Built from source on 2018-04-07 at 17:19:05
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/brew-gem.rb

~/code/ruby/homebrew-formulas >brew-gem install mailcatcher
==> Fetching mailcatcher from gem source
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Errno::EPERM)
    Operation not permitted - /Users/sshaw/.gem/specs/rubygems.org%443/specs.4.8
==> /usr/bin/gem install /Users/sshaw/Library/Caches/Homebrew/mailcatcher-0.6.5.gem --no-ri --no-rdoc --no-wrapper
Last 15 lines from /Users/sshaw/Library/Logs/Homebrew/gem-mailcatcher/01.gem:
2018-04-07 17:23:25 -0400

/usr/bin/gem
install
/Users/sshaw/Library/Caches/Homebrew/mailcatcher-0.6.5.gem
--no-ri
--no-rdoc
--no-wrapper
--no-user-install
--install-dir
/usr/local/Cellar/gem-mailcatcher/0.6.5
--bindir
/usr/local/Cellar/gem-mailcatcher/0.6.5/bin

ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem '/Users/sshaw/Library/Caches/Homebrew/mailcatcher-0.6.5.gem' (>= 0) in any repository
...

[nicksieger]

@sshaw you might need to upgrade rubygems in your ruby. Only more recent versions allow overriding the directory where gem specs are downloaded/cached with an environment variable.

Or use homebrew ruby for a more modern ruby than what's installed by osx.

[sshaw]

@sshaw you might need to upgrade rubygems in your ruby. Only more recent versions allow overriding the directory where gem specs are downloaded/cached with an environment variable.

I possibly have every ruby version since 1.6 installed and none work.

After having a second look, the problem is it's using /usr/bin/gem, which is going to be ancient on all OS X versions that I know of.

Why not take whatever is in the path? Or, is this what's in the path given the sandboxed brew env?

Or use homebrew ruby for a more modern ruby than what's installed by osx.

Homebrew ruby is installed too (keg only though).

[sshaw]

After having a second look, the problem is it's using /usr/bin/gem, which is going to be ancient on all OS X versions that I know of.

Ok, I see that you default to that unless one provides the --homebrew-ruby option.

So basically use of this requires a recent system ruby or Homebrew linked ruby (as you say here 😬).

And why not take whatever is in the path?