gem server - cannot redirect to gem repository

[Tom Cloyd]

Due to some quirk of my install-from-source (done earlier today), my
gems are in /home/tomc/.gem/ruby/1.8/doc, on my Kubuntu Linix OS.

I need to redirect the gem server to this location, but nothing I've
tried has worked, and I'm out of ideas.

Here's what I think SHOULD work, with the result:

gem server -d=/home/tomc/.gem/ruby/1.8/doc
ERROR: While executing gem ... (ArgumentError)
/home/tomc/=/home/tomc/.gem does not appear to be a gem repository

These also do not work:
/home/tomc/.gem
/home/tomc/.gem/ruby/1.8
/home/tomc/.gem/ruby/1.8/doc/activerecord-2.3.3/rdoc (direction to a
specific rdoc dir)
/opt/ruby-1.8.7-p160/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 (is where my gems actually reside)

=> Can anyone tell me what I'm not grasping, such that this all failing
so completely?

Thanks!

t.

Here's my "gem env" output:

$ gem
env

RubyGems
Environment:

- RUBYGEMS VERSION:
1.3.5

- RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2009-04-08 patchlevel 160)
[i686-linux]
- INSTALLATION DIRECTORY:
/opt/ruby-1.8.7-p160/lib/ruby/gems/1.8

- RUBY EXECUTABLE: /opt/ruby-1.8.7-p160/bin/ruby
- EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /opt/ruby-1.8.7-p160/bin
- RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
- ruby
- x86-linux
- GEM PATHS:
- /opt/ruby-1.8.7-p160/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
- /home/tomc/.gem/ruby/1.8
- GEM CONFIGURATION:
- :update_sources => true
- :verbose => true
- :benchmark => false
- :backtrace => false
- :bulk_threshold => 1000
- REMOTE SOURCES:
- http://gems.rubyforge.org/
tomc@tomc-desktop:/$

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