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Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 31

How do I change the ~/.bundler directory location?

My home directory is a mounted NFS share and the local root doesn't have permissions to enter my user directory and it causes some errors when bundler removes the cached folders. (See sample output of 'bundle install' below).

I'd like to move the ~/.bundler directory to local disk, if possible. I've been able to move my gems and rvm folders, but I can't for the life of me figure out where to change the bundler directory.

Anyone know how to do this?

$ bundle install
Checking out files: 100% (140/140), done.
Checking out files: 100% (9/9), done.
Fetching source index for http://rubygems.org/
Enter your password to install the bundled RubyGems to your system: 
mv: cannot remove `/auto/home2/borgnk/.bundler/tmp/9517/cache/rake-0.8.7.gem': Permission denied
Using rake (0.8.7) 
mv: cannot remove `/auto/home2/borgnk/.bundler/tmp/9517/cache/abstract-1.0.0.gem': Permission denied
Using abstract (1.0.0) 
mv: cannot remove `/auto/home2/borgnk/.bundler/tmp/9517/cache/activesupport-3.0.7.gem': Permission denied
Using activesupport (3.0.7) 
mv: cannot remove `/auto/home2/borgnk/.bundler/tmp/9517/cache/builder-2.1.2.gem': Permission denied
Using builder (2.1.2) 
mv: cannot remove `/auto/home2/borgnk/.bundler/tmp/9517/cache/i18n-0.5.0.gem': Permission denied
Using i18n (0.5.0) 
mv: cannot remove `/auto/home2/borgnk/.bundler/tmp/9517/cache/activemodel-3.0.7.gem': Permission denied
Using activemodel (3.0.7) 
mv: cannot remove `/auto/home2/borgnk/.bundler/tmp/9517/cache/erubis-2.6.6.gem': Permission denied
Using erubis (2.6.6) 
mv: cannot remove `/auto/home2/borgnk/.bundler/tmp/9517/cache/rack-1.2.2.gem': Permission denied
Using rack (1.2.2) 
mv: cannot remove `/auto/home2/borgnk/.bundler/tmp/9517/cache/rack-mount-0.6.14.gem': Permission denied
...

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5430

Answers (3)

tadman
tadman

Reputation: 211740

You can always customize how bundle installs by passing an argument to the installer:

bundle install --path /some/path

This is useful for the case you highlight, or in cases where a shared directory will be used by different platforms or Ruby versions.

Update:

It should be possible to re-position the ~/.bundler directory by setting your $HOME environment variable to be something that will work, which in effect alters what ~ interprets as. Bundler appears to use the method Gem.user_home method to determine where to put this file, so if you can fake that out you are set.

This could be as simple as:

HOME=/some/home bundle install --path /some/path

Upvotes: 3

thekindofme
thekindofme

Reputation: 3866

May be you can create a symbolic link for .bundler and point it to a folder to which bunlder can write. Or else you will have to folk bundler like aNoble suggested.

Upvotes: 1

aNoble
aNoble

Reputation: 7072

It looks like it's fairly hard-coded if you look a the bundler.rb file. I'd say your best bet would be to fork Bundler and make the change yourself. Or you could always submit a feature request.

Upvotes: 1

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