I'm using latest bundler with a lot of :git => ... in my Gemfile. Bundler does not seem to remove old/ unused git repositories it downloaded. Also I couldn't find a simple "bundle clean", just like "gem clean". Of course this would only work properly when using a separatestorage per project, but this is how I do it. So I wonder what's the best way to have bundler clean old data? :)
I asked the bundler team and the feature will be implemented in bundler 2.1. :)
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I use bundler to manage my dependencies' versions.
The question I am asking myself now, is: how to manage bundler's version itself. I mean, "bundler install/update/outdated" helps me understand what I am holding back, update them optimistically or pessimistically ... but I am not sure what's the best practice / procedure to decide about bundler itself.
In other words, is there a gem- or bundler-based workflow that ensures that I and my coworkers do use the latest (or the to-be-specified) version. Bundler gives us this workflow for all the other gems, but what about bundler itself ?
I hope this might be of some help to you here.
First, you need to install the appropriate version of bundler:
% gem install bundler -v '~> 1.12.5'
Successfully installed bundler-1.12.5
Then force RubyGems to use the version you want.
% bundle _1.12.5_ install
This pattern gem-binary _gem-version_ works for any gem binary.
You can check the available versions for Bundler from here.
As everyone know, we can use gem from git repository:
gem 'nokogiri', :git => 'git://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri.git', :branch => '1.4'
(example from http://bundler.io/gemfile.html)
But I prefer Mercurial, so is it possible to use gem from Mercurial repo?
Currently no, however there has been some activity to add it. The most recent seems to be Bundler Issue #1219.
The work around I would go with would be to either clone locally and use the file path in the Gemfile. Perhaps using Ryan Bigg's nifty Bundler Local Paths Trick on the development system. Unfortunately this is not a good solution for deploying.
Hopefully the bundler team will merge in support at some point.
I am working on a gem and it's on github.
When I include the gem in an application, do a capistrano deploy, and (on the server) run:
bundle outdated
I see:
* authengine (0.0.1 d8baa49 > 0.0.1 de43dfa)
which tells me that a more recent commit is available. Why doesn't the bundle update (part of capistrano deploy) pull the more recent version? There is no version constraint in the Gemfile of the host application, and anyway they have the same version number, just different commits.
Even if I log into the server and run
bundle update authengine
I get the same "outdated" result afterwards.
What am I missing here?
One thing I've found that can cause this is if other gems in the bundle make requirements on gems by version that are incompatible. Bundler tries to reconcile these by selecting versions of gems such that their requirements can all be satisfied. The result is that it quietly refuses to update gems.
The way to check this is to set an explicit version requirement in your Gemfile. Something like
gem "authengine", "> 0.0.2" #(you'll need to bump the version to make this work)
#or
gem "authengine", :ref => "d8baa49"
Then run
bundle update authengine
You should see something like (this is taken from my particular case):
Bundler could not find compatible versions for gem "json": In
Gemfile:
chef (> 10.8) ruby depends on
json (<= 1.6.1, >= 1.4.4) ruby
logical-construct (>= 0) ruby depends on
json (1.7.5)
So, in my case it's a problem with explicitly requiring a newer version of json.
The author, André Arko, stated in 2014 that:
The Bundler resolver is definitely a work in progress, and we adjust
the tradeoffs between specific versions and resolving quickly based on
user feedback.
Bundler has consistently not provided the newest possible version of
every gem for the entirety of its existence, and it does result in a
lot of tickets being opened. In most cases, it turns out to be the
result of Bundler having to pick between the newest version of one gem
or a different gem, and Bundler picks the gem the user doesn’t care
about having the newest version of. That’s why it’s so important to
make your Gemfile version requirements accurately reflect your actual
requirements.
I recognize that your assumption that Bundler would give you the
newest possible version seemed valid at the time, but the docs only
say that you will get a version that meets your requirements, not the
latest. Is there anywhere we could expand the docs to make it clearer
that the newest versions of everything simply isn’t feasible?
What is the output returned when you run bundle update authengine? Does it actually say it updated the gem? Or does it ignore the gem?
You can try using the --source parameter to specifically tell Bundler to use the git repository. That, or your
bundle update authengine --source https://github.com/mustardseeddatabase/authengine.git
Also, when unexpected things like this happen, I like to clean up my gemlist in general. It could be that you still have older versions of the gem laying around, not using in bundler.
So you could do:
gem list
gem check
gem cleanup
Or do a complete reinstall
gem uninstall authengine
bundle install
I tried searching for this several times, but if this question has been answered already I didn't find it.
So, let's say I've developed a plain old gem (not a Rails app). I already know how to use Bundler for development, so I have a Gemfile and everything in my repository. However, I want this gem to use Bundler for dependency resolution when I install it, not just when I work on it.
Is there a way to do so, or would I have to resort to running its commands from a git checkout with bundle exec?
Bundler resolves dependencies not only for development. Just run bundle install on production server after deployment and it will install all needed gems there too.
If you need to install gems from several repositories, add row in you Gemfile:
source 'http://you_repository.com
I have a Gemfile with a private git repo in the following format:
gem 'magic_beans', :git => "git#git.example.com:magic_beans.git', :branch => 'super_beans'
When I bundle install, the Gemfile.lock locks it to a specific SHA revision.
Can I get bundler to always check and use the latest SHA commit and/or update the Gemfile.lock? Notice that when I push updates to the super_beans branch I am not modifying the gem version.
Ideally, every time I run bundle it would check upstream git repo for a newer SHA revision of the branch.
This isn't how bundler works.
The point is to allow seamless versioning of dependencies.
(particularly so you know exactly what version of the code is deployed at any given time).
If want the latest version, you should just run.
bundle update magic_beans
This is exactly the same functionality as if you just say
gem "rails"
I'd suggest though, if you have a range of specific things you want to update
then add a custom binary (say an executable file named bundle_update)
#!/usr/bin/env bash
bundle install
bundle update magic_beans
Then just do a ./bundle_update when you want to update these things.
You can run bundle update to update all or specific gems to their latest available version, as stated in the docs.
Would that help?
After searching through the documents I finally found the magic way to do this:
bundle update magic_beans --source magic_beans
That is to update the magic_beans gem only, but not to touch other locked gems. The doc about this is: http://bundler.io/man/bundle-update.1.html
delete .gemlock is what worked for me :/