Embracing RVM's Global Gemset
Embracing RVM’s Global Gemset
In the brave new world of bundler and rvm, I have been looking for a way to manage my global gems. The latest iteration is working pretty good.
rvm provides ~/.rvm/gemsets/global.gems, but this only runs when a ruby is first installed. I need to manage my day by day changes.
Enter ~/Gemfile.global.
rvm ree@global
bundle install --gemfile=~/Gemfile.global
Simple enough. But very helpful.
Today I started playing with ruby 1.9.2. Some of the gems in Gemfile.global aren’t quite ready yet.
I started editing a copy, named Gemfile.global19, but that seemed like folly.
Enter group "1.8".
For 1.8, use bundle install --without "1.9" --gemfile=~/Gemfile.global
For 1.9, use bundle install --without "1.8" --gemfile=~/Gemfile.global
Note: a symbol, which is a number (:1.8), causes problems. Use a string (“1.8”).
Seeing the Gemfile might help:
source :rubygems
gem 'autotest'
gem 'autotest-fsevent'
gem 'autotest-notification'
gem 'autotest-rails'
gem 'cheat'
gem 'diff-lcs'
gem 'github'
gem 'hitch'
gem 'jeweler'
gem 'rake'
gem 'rdoc'
gem 'rdoc-data'
gem 'sqlite3-ruby'
gem 'thin'
gem 'thor'
gem 'watchr'
gem 'yard'
group :irb do
gem 'hirb'
gem 'method_lister'
gem 'wirble'
end
group '1.8' do
gem 'hammertime'
gem 'ruby-debug' # highline is not 1.9 compatible. highline1.9 is.
end
group '1.9' do
gem 'ruby-debug19'
end
Matt Scilipoti
matts@scilipoti.name
github.com/mattscilipoti
