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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Michael Pearson >>>>> The Bon Scotts; http://www.thebonscotts.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. 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