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dan
dan

Reputation: 45632

With a system wide install of RVM, which user do you run bundle install as?

I have a system wide installation of RVM on a server. I'm shooting in the dark as far as running bundle install is concerned. I don't know if I'm supposed to run it as the same user as the Rails app or as the root user. Right now, I've been doing su - to change to root and then cd'ing to the Rails root directory and running bundle install. Not sure if this is the right way. Any help?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3255

Answers (3)

fringd
fringd

Reputation: 2528

bundle is smart. if your gems are in /usr/local or /opt or whatever and you don't have permissions, it will do this:

bundle install 

<~/code/project> $ bundle install
Fetching https://github.com/plataformatec/simple_form.git
remote: Counting objects: 3275, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1225/1225), done.
remote: Total 3275 (delta 2289), reused 2836 (delta 1950)
Receiving objects: 100% (3275/3275), 369.42 KiB | 608 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2289/2289), done.
Fetching source index for http://rubygems.org/
Enter your password to install the bundled RubyGems to your system:
...

note the last line there... bundle runs sudo for you on just the stuff that needs root.

Upvotes: 3

Rein Henrichs
Rein Henrichs

Reputation: 15605

As whichever user owns and runs the ruby application.

Upvotes: 0

nonopolarity
nonopolarity

Reputation: 151006

bundler's doc explicitly says don't do it as root:

http://gembundler.com/man/bundle-install.1.html

Quoted:

You should never use sudo bundle install. This is because several other steps in bundle install must be performed as the current user:

1) Updating your Gemfile.lock
2) Updating your vendor/cache, if necessary
3) Checking out private git repositories using your user's SSH keys

Especially true with RVM:

http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/rubies/rubygems/

Quoted:

DO NOT use sudo...

to work with RVM gems. When you do sudo you are running commands as root, another user in another shell and hence all of the setup that RVM has done for you is ignored while the command runs under sudo (such things as GEM_HOME, etc...). So to reiterate, as soon as you 'sudo' you are running as the root system user which will clear out your environment as well as any files it creates are not able to be modified by your user and will result in strange things happening. (You will start to think that someone has a voodoo doll of your application...)

Upvotes: 4

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