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Ruby Ruby Gems Gems In Depth Uninstalling a Gem

Ryan Moxon
Ryan Moxon
43 Points
Posted by Ryan Moxon
Ryan Moxon
43 Points

Bundle install

When I remove the gem 'rollbar' from Gemfile and run bundle install I get the error 'rollbar' has been deleted from the Gemfile.

Ruby scans Gemfile.lock for dependencies and previous gem installatiions which tirggers the error.

2 Answers

Mike Hickman
Mike Hickman
19,817 Points
Mike Hickman
Mike Hickman
19,817 Points

You can delete your Gemfile.lock, then run bundle install and it will re-generate the Gemfile.lock based on your current Gemfile.

If you don't feel comfortable with that, make a backup copy of your Gemfile.lock first and then do it. Good luck.

Ryan Moxon
Ryan Moxon
43 Points
Ryan Moxon
Ryan Moxon
43 Points

Thank you for the replies! I figured out that I needed to login as the user instead of root.

I ran bundle install and everything worked great.

Only problem I have is removing a certain gem from the dependencies list now. When I remove the gem from Gemfile and run bundle install I get the 'gem has been deleted' error.

So I may have to delete Gemfile.lock and run bundle install but it's to risky in my situation. My have to run the operations in a development environment.