I'm curious about the other side of this coin - what do you use your .rvmrcs 
for?

I've never found a use for .rvmrc (or gemsets), given that I pretty much bundle 
everything.

—Ben


On 28/07/2011, at 1:33 PM, Simon Russell wrote:

> I work with Michael Pearson; I'm one of the people who torments him by
> insisting on checking in .rvmrc files.  I'm probably also one of the
> people who doesn't have a problem with RVM in production, but I
> haven't tried using some of the more recent releases.  Certainly the
> random changes don't help.  It seems that if Wayne stopped insisting
> people always use the latest version, it wouldn't be such a problem to
> automate.
> 
> As for .rvmrc, I haven't yet heard a good reason why checking it in is
> bad, and I can think of a few reasons it's convenient.  I can be
> convinced though; and I haven't done a lot of searching to find
> opinions conflicting with mine :)
> 
> Simon.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 13:15, Julio Cesar Ody <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Which is what I said on the first email I sent to the thread. Michael
>> was talking specifically about sandboxing gems.
>> 
>> 
>> On Thursday, July 28, 2011, Dmytrii Nagirniak <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 28 July 2011 12:25, Julio Cesar Ody <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> @ Michael: agreed, that's what Bundler is for. Again, should you
>>> always run your apps on the same version of Ruby, it is a waste of
>>> time.
>>> 
>>> That's not why RVM exists. If everything you run is on one ruby version 
>>> then there's no point of using RVM at all.In this case RVM is a tool that 
>>> solves no problem.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> But if you do need multiple versions of Ruby - RVM is the right tool for 
>>> the job.
>>> At least that's my view on it.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Pat Allan <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> I don't like the idea of checked-in .rvmrc files at all - granted, I don't 
>>>> work with any large teams though :)
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Pat
>>>> 
>>>> On 28/07/2011, at 12:15 PM, Michael Pearson wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> The .rvmrc thing was the easiest to work around, and if we'd really 
>>>>> needed them, I would have either hacked/forked RVM. I'm the only 
>>>>> developer at my work that thinks that .rvmrc checked into a repo is a bad 
>>>>> idea :) (gemsets? that's what bundler is for! and we're all using 
>>>>> ruby-1.9.2 anyway!)
>>>>> 
>>>>> It was the constant changes to the install process / defaults that killed 
>>>>> it for me.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Julio Cesar Ody <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Yeah, I read it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://serverfault.com/questions/227510/is-it-possible-to-skip-rvmrc-confirmation
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
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>>>>> The Bon Scotts; http://www.thebonscotts.com
>>>>> 
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