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groovehunter
groovehunter

Reputation: 3168

How to set the target path for bundle install?

On my home box the bundle install command asks for my password and installs the gems in

/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/...

But on my office computer they are installed in ~/.bundler/cache/git (or at least cached there) and not installed in the main filesystem.

I can’t figure out how to set the path they are installed in. Please help!

Upvotes: 13

Views: 24524

Answers (2)

Jeremy
Jeremy

Reputation: 135

As Mohamed Hakki noted, the other answer is now deprecated.

You can now set the target path for Bundler using:

bundle config set --local path vendor/bundle

Here we specify the path vendor/bundle (which in my experience seems to be the most common and “standard” path), but you can specify any path you want (including ~/.bundler).

This command actually creates a file within your working directory, .bundle/config, with the contents:

---
BUNDLE_PATH: "vendor/bundle"

Of course, we are using vendor/bundle as an example, but the BUNDLE_PATH will be whatever you specified as the path in the command invocation.

Once this file is in your working directory, all invocations of Bundler from the same working directory will use the path you specified.

Upvotes: 13

Henry Collingridge
Henry Collingridge

Reputation: 1970

You can specify where the gems are installed by using

bundle install --path [directory]

This is not normally necessary; you can usually just do 'bundle install' and you're good to go.

When you want to include the gems for deployment, you will want to use

bundle package

which will, by default, put your gems in ./vendor/cache. If you subsequently deploy the project and do

bundle install --deployment

Bundler will source the files from that directory and install them into ./vendor/bundle. More information is available by doing

bundle help install

Hope this is useful.

Upvotes: 11

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