How to start over with a clean gems install for jekyll?












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I've been working on a blog using Jekyll so I installed Ruby with this command from the Jekyll doc:



sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev build-essential


Then I installed the gems directory to my home folder. I tried out a lot of different themes and just run bundle install when my terminal said I was missing any dependencies. Now I have a lot of packages installed inside the gems folder. Is there a way for me remove unnecessary gems and start over without uninstall gems?










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    Simply delete them from file explorer or with a rm -rf ~/path/to/gems/*. If you're starting to develop with ruby, you definitely have to look at rbenv which allows you to easily run any ruby version you want.
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  • Can you post the full backtrace errors you got? But also see answer I've posted.
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I've been working on a blog using Jekyll so I installed Ruby with this command from the Jekyll doc:



sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev build-essential


Then I installed the gems directory to my home folder. I tried out a lot of different themes and just run bundle install when my terminal said I was missing any dependencies. Now I have a lot of packages installed inside the gems folder. Is there a way for me remove unnecessary gems and start over without uninstall gems?










share|improve this question


















  • 1




    Simply delete them from file explorer or with a rm -rf ~/path/to/gems/*. If you're starting to develop with ruby, you definitely have to look at rbenv which allows you to easily run any ruby version you want.
    – David Jacquel
    Nov 21 at 7:27










  • Can you post the full backtrace errors you got? But also see answer I've posted.
    – lacostenycoder
    Nov 21 at 8:37














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I've been working on a blog using Jekyll so I installed Ruby with this command from the Jekyll doc:



sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev build-essential


Then I installed the gems directory to my home folder. I tried out a lot of different themes and just run bundle install when my terminal said I was missing any dependencies. Now I have a lot of packages installed inside the gems folder. Is there a way for me remove unnecessary gems and start over without uninstall gems?










share|improve this question













I've been working on a blog using Jekyll so I installed Ruby with this command from the Jekyll doc:



sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev build-essential


Then I installed the gems directory to my home folder. I tried out a lot of different themes and just run bundle install when my terminal said I was missing any dependencies. Now I have a lot of packages installed inside the gems folder. Is there a way for me remove unnecessary gems and start over without uninstall gems?







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    Simply delete them from file explorer or with a rm -rf ~/path/to/gems/*. If you're starting to develop with ruby, you definitely have to look at rbenv which allows you to easily run any ruby version you want.
    – David Jacquel
    Nov 21 at 7:27










  • Can you post the full backtrace errors you got? But also see answer I've posted.
    – lacostenycoder
    Nov 21 at 8:37














  • 1




    Simply delete them from file explorer or with a rm -rf ~/path/to/gems/*. If you're starting to develop with ruby, you definitely have to look at rbenv which allows you to easily run any ruby version you want.
    – David Jacquel
    Nov 21 at 7:27










  • Can you post the full backtrace errors you got? But also see answer I've posted.
    – lacostenycoder
    Nov 21 at 8:37








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Simply delete them from file explorer or with a rm -rf ~/path/to/gems/*. If you're starting to develop with ruby, you definitely have to look at rbenv which allows you to easily run any ruby version you want.
– David Jacquel
Nov 21 at 7:27




Simply delete them from file explorer or with a rm -rf ~/path/to/gems/*. If you're starting to develop with ruby, you definitely have to look at rbenv which allows you to easily run any ruby version you want.
– David Jacquel
Nov 21 at 7:27












Can you post the full backtrace errors you got? But also see answer I've posted.
– lacostenycoder
Nov 21 at 8:37




Can you post the full backtrace errors you got? But also see answer I've posted.
– lacostenycoder
Nov 21 at 8:37












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It is highly recommend to not use system ruby but use a ruby version manager. One reason is that you won't have to use sudo before your gem commands.



If you want to remove all your current gems you should be able to just do



gem uninstall --all


But you might need to prepend it with sudo gem uninstall --all



If you intend to do any longer term work / multiple projects with ruby, I recommend using RVM. You can find detailed install instructions here



Some prefer rbenv however it's install instructions seem to be focused on MacOS, so if you're on linux, I dunno.






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    Thank you. I intend to use ruby for my blog so I'll definitely check out RVM.
    – Kingle
    Nov 21 at 18:30










  • @Kingle I highly recommend using RVM. It will make your life easier.
    – lacostenycoder
    Nov 21 at 20:34



















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You can just run:



gem uninstall [gemname]


to remove them one at a time.






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It is highly recommend to not use system ruby but use a ruby version manager. One reason is that you won't have to use sudo before your gem commands.



If you want to remove all your current gems you should be able to just do



gem uninstall --all


But you might need to prepend it with sudo gem uninstall --all



If you intend to do any longer term work / multiple projects with ruby, I recommend using RVM. You can find detailed install instructions here



Some prefer rbenv however it's install instructions seem to be focused on MacOS, so if you're on linux, I dunno.






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    Thank you. I intend to use ruby for my blog so I'll definitely check out RVM.
    – Kingle
    Nov 21 at 18:30










  • @Kingle I highly recommend using RVM. It will make your life easier.
    – lacostenycoder
    Nov 21 at 20:34
















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It is highly recommend to not use system ruby but use a ruby version manager. One reason is that you won't have to use sudo before your gem commands.



If you want to remove all your current gems you should be able to just do



gem uninstall --all


But you might need to prepend it with sudo gem uninstall --all



If you intend to do any longer term work / multiple projects with ruby, I recommend using RVM. You can find detailed install instructions here



Some prefer rbenv however it's install instructions seem to be focused on MacOS, so if you're on linux, I dunno.






share|improve this answer

















  • 1




    Thank you. I intend to use ruby for my blog so I'll definitely check out RVM.
    – Kingle
    Nov 21 at 18:30










  • @Kingle I highly recommend using RVM. It will make your life easier.
    – lacostenycoder
    Nov 21 at 20:34














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It is highly recommend to not use system ruby but use a ruby version manager. One reason is that you won't have to use sudo before your gem commands.



If you want to remove all your current gems you should be able to just do



gem uninstall --all


But you might need to prepend it with sudo gem uninstall --all



If you intend to do any longer term work / multiple projects with ruby, I recommend using RVM. You can find detailed install instructions here



Some prefer rbenv however it's install instructions seem to be focused on MacOS, so if you're on linux, I dunno.






share|improve this answer












It is highly recommend to not use system ruby but use a ruby version manager. One reason is that you won't have to use sudo before your gem commands.



If you want to remove all your current gems you should be able to just do



gem uninstall --all


But you might need to prepend it with sudo gem uninstall --all



If you intend to do any longer term work / multiple projects with ruby, I recommend using RVM. You can find detailed install instructions here



Some prefer rbenv however it's install instructions seem to be focused on MacOS, so if you're on linux, I dunno.







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    Thank you. I intend to use ruby for my blog so I'll definitely check out RVM.
    – Kingle
    Nov 21 at 18:30










  • @Kingle I highly recommend using RVM. It will make your life easier.
    – lacostenycoder
    Nov 21 at 20:34














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    Thank you. I intend to use ruby for my blog so I'll definitely check out RVM.
    – Kingle
    Nov 21 at 18:30










  • @Kingle I highly recommend using RVM. It will make your life easier.
    – lacostenycoder
    Nov 21 at 20:34








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Thank you. I intend to use ruby for my blog so I'll definitely check out RVM.
– Kingle
Nov 21 at 18:30




Thank you. I intend to use ruby for my blog so I'll definitely check out RVM.
– Kingle
Nov 21 at 18:30












@Kingle I highly recommend using RVM. It will make your life easier.
– lacostenycoder
Nov 21 at 20:34




@Kingle I highly recommend using RVM. It will make your life easier.
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You can just run:



gem uninstall [gemname]


to remove them one at a time.






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You can just run:



gem uninstall [gemname]


to remove them one at a time.






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You can just run:



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to remove them one at a time.






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