Faster Ruby Gem installs

<i>To turn these off, modify your ~/.gemrc file and add the line: gem: --no-rdoc --no-ri</i><p>Great tip. I sometimes remember to add these while I'm typing gem install..., but most of the time I forget, so this will help.

I actually use my local rdoc all the time.<p>I followed this guide <a href="http://alkesh.vaghmaria.com/2009/07/offline-gem-server/" rel="nofollow">http://alkesh.vaghmaria.com/2009/07/offline-gem-server/</a> to have a local rdoc server running through passenger (so I don't have to run gem server manually).<p>This is great for working offline, and it also means that the docs are always usign sdoc, which is a great template which allows for good searching. &#62;90% of projects have crap rdoc templates.<p>I do agree that building ri is a waste of time, though.

Being a sysadmin (who did a lot of gem installs on production for the devs) rather than a Ruby guy, I didn't know this was a tip. I always figured everyone wanted this stuff, and I was the odd one out. Besides, no one should be reading rdoc on the production machines anyway.

I prefer mine in /etc/gemrc