tag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:/discussions/problems/658-duplicate-gemsRubyGems.org: Discussion 2015-08-17T20:21:13Ztag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/83496972011-07-10T16:43:28Z2011-09-23T14:58:39ZDuplicate Gems<div><p>No replies? :(</p></div>Anttag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/83496972011-09-23T15:12:29Z2011-09-23T15:12:29ZDuplicate Gems<div><p>This one was buried in our spam filter, just unearthed it.
Sorry.</p>
<p>They're not duplicates, they're different versions of gems
installed on your system. Personally I wouldn't mess with it.</p>
<p>If you need a better way of handling this kind of thing, take a
look into RVM gemsets:</p>
<p><a href=
"http://beginrescueend.com/gemsets/basics/">http://beginrescueend.com/gemsets/basics/</a></p></div>Nick Quarantotag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/83496972011-09-23T17:14:27Z2011-09-23T17:14:27ZDuplicate Gems<div><p>Thanks. So I need all of them installed? :( They hog a lot of
disk space.</p></div>anttag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/83496972011-09-23T19:46:24Z2011-09-23T19:46:24ZDuplicate Gems<div><p>I'm not sure what your application depends on, so I can't answer
that correctly. If you're using RVM and/or Bundler it becomes way
easier to manage this kind of stuff.</p></div>Nick Quarantotag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/83496972011-09-23T19:48:10Z2011-09-23T19:48:10ZDuplicate Gems<div><p>I only use Ruby for Rbot as shown in <a href=
"http://ruby-rbot.org/">http://ruby-rbot.org/</a> ...</p></div>anttag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/83496972011-10-12T13:56:35Z2011-10-12T13:56:35ZDuplicate Gems<div><p>I think the best way here is to just use RVM & Bundler if
you want to really control what gems you have and make it
repeatable. You could just uninstall every gem on your box without
these tools but it's going to be more maintainable and easier to
manage for others to help you hacking on it if you use either (or
both, preferably Bundler).</p></div>Nick Quarantotag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/83496972011-10-12T21:30:59Z2011-10-12T21:30:59ZDuplicate Gems<div><p>Alternately, you can run <code>gem cleanup</code> to get rid of
old versions</p></div>Eric Hodel