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
> > > > > >  
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