Installing Gems to a specific directory using Bundler - Knowledge Base - Mark Eschbach (Software Developer && System Analyst)

Alternative Bundle install path

To install gems to somewhere other than your system repository (also, to stop bundler from attempting to

sudo

anything), set an alternative install location using BUNDLE_PATH. This will install all required gems to that location. Additionally, set GEM_HOME in the environment. The difference is that GEM_HOME is where the gems are stored while BUNDLE_PATH is the location of the specific project data is stored.

References

http://gembundler.com/v1.3/man/bundle-config.1.html

Article Status

Totally incomplete and incomprehensible. Needs fact checking and hypothesis checking.

Revision History

When	What
2013-05-13	Initial Draft

The Knowledge Base

This is a collection of publicly facing notes. I am hoping someone finds the notes I post here helpful.

Over the years I have found many notes, articles, and mediatations published on the internet helpful. This is my attempt to provide back to the community.