rbenv and local gems

on ruby, rails, and howto

Rbenv just felt more natural to me. I removed RVM from my system and installed rbenv. I'm not going in the discussion which one is better and why. You can read a good blogpost about the differences and/or similarities here.

To solve the problem with gemsets the blog post mentions also rbenv-gemset which deals with different local gemsets.

There are 2 main ways to do this.

RVM style gem-sets

cd ~/.rbenv/plugins
git clone git://github.com/jamis/rbenv-gemset.git
rbenv gemset create 1.9.3-p125 helloset
>.rbenv-gemsets <<<helloset
rbenv gemset active
gem install ronn
rbenv rehash
rbenv gemset list

Project specific gem-sets

I prefer this because If I stop working on a project I can just delete this gemset together with the project.

cd $PROJECT
echo '.gems' > .rbenv-gemsets
bundle install --path .gems

If you use git don't forget to update your .gitignore to exclude the .gems directory.