RVM Gemsets and bundles solve the same issues as far as I am concerned. They are primarily used for selecting the dependencies for your application.
On Thursday, 28 July 2011 at 1:45 PM, Ben Hoskings wrote: > 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] > > (mailto:[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] > > > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 28 July 2011 12:25, Julio Cesar Ody <[email protected] > > > > (mailto:[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] > > > > (mailto:[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] (mailto:[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] > > > > > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > (mailto:[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] > > > > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > (mailto:[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] > > > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > [email protected] > > > > (mailto:[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] > > > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > [email protected] > > > > (mailto:[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] > > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected] > > > (mailto:[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] > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > (mailto:[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] > (mailto:[email protected]). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[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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