Oh My Gems!

Oh My Gems! | polishing ruby by ryan davis:

I’m tired of the complications that tools like bundler and rvm inject into my system and my workflow. I don’t want 4 billion gems installed globally. I don’t want to have rake slow down for no good reason. I don’t want rvm to regress on undefined variables over and over and over (and I don’t want to report it anymore when it does). I want as much simplicity as I can afford and still be able to get my job done. I’ve found pretty good balance using rbenv (only when needed) and by using this 40 line shell function ohmygems (aliased to omg , of course): export ORIG_GEM_PATH=${GEM_PATH:-} export ORIG_GEM_HOME=${GEM_HOME:-} export ORIG_PATH=${PATH} ohmygems() { name=${1:-} if [ -z "$name" ]; then echo "usage: ohmygems <name or reset>" echo echo " Switches gem home to a (potentially new) named repo." echo " Your previous gems are still visible," echo " but new gem installs will i...

Full article: http://blog.zenspider.com/blog/2012/09/ohmygems.html