showing location of credentials

[ahoward]

I am at a loss debugging and issue.... I was having auth issues (wrong key scope) and eventually worked around this. However, I in the process I discovered that my .gem/credentials were not, in fact, stored in the location but, instead, where stored in .local/share/gem/

I cannot seem to find any reference to this online, or in the code so, I am befuddled.

1. Any thoughts on why gem signin would produce credentials there, instead of the normal spot and
2. Is there (there should be) a way to display which credentials location the gem command is using?

TY!

[colby-swandale]

Moving this to the rubygems CLI repository

[duckinator]

Hi! This change happened a few years ago, when we started following the XDG standard. It should definitely be documented.

In practice, you can think of it as RubyGems and Bundler checking these 3 directories and going with the first they can use:

• if it exists: $HOME/.gem/ (for backwards compatibility)
• if $XDG_DATA_HOME is defined: $XDG_DATA_HOME/gem/ (to follow the XDG standard)
• in all other situations: $HOME/.local/share/gem/ (also to follow the XDG standard)

If you want to use the old .gem directory, just make sure it exists.

(For anyone who's interested, the relevant code for this in Gem.user_dir and Gem.home, both in lib/rubygems/defaults.rb.)

[ahoward]

Yes. I figured this out. Would definitely be nice to doc. I could submit a PR if helpful? On a side note that standard, while useful, makes backups tricky since that directory is FULL of craft, like logs, from other commands like gcloud..... Easy enough to work around when docs are there but... TY

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On Mon, Dec 30, 2024, 10:04 Ellen Marie Dash ***@***.***> wrote: Hi! This change happened a few years ago, when we started following the XDG standard. It should definitely be documented. In practice, you can think of it as RubyGems and Bundler checking these 3 directories and going with the first they can use: - if it exists: $HOME/.gem/ (for backwards compatibility) - if $XDG_DATA_HOME is defined: $XDG_DATA_HOME/gem/ (to follow the XDG standard) - in all other situations: $HOME/.local/share/gem/ (also to follow the XDG standard) (For anyone who's interested, the relevant code for this in Gem.user_dir <https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/blob/b2bf239/lib/rubygems/defaults.rb#L103-L109> and Gem.home <https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/blob/b2bf239147ba31ddd251bfac02534250d04a32ca/lib/rubygems/defaults.rb#L154-L156>, both in lib/rubygems/defaults.rb.) — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#8373 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAABPTUPI2UMRSQYLOUQJK32IGDLXAVCNFSM6AAAAABUKWZ7ISVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDKNRVG43TGOBWGA> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>