Thanks, Rob. I'll copy over my original tomorrow morning.
Is there anything special I have to know if I still need to start over
(in terms of being careful to delete certain things that uninstall
didn't uninstall, etc.)?
Barney
On Sep 29, 2:30 pm, Rob Biedenharn <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Sep 29, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Barney wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> > In trying to port a working version from one computer to another
> > I had installed the requisites and copied over the files in the rails
> > project. However one method wouldn't work and it was because the gem
> > involved wouldn't work with the newest rails. After uninstalling
> > rails, reinstalling an earlier version and playing with DevKit, et.
> > al., I've managed to fubar the project so that now it even claims it
> > can't find rubygems. So I'm inclined to uninstall gems, the devkit
> > and rails and then copy over the code again, essentially starting
> > over.
> > Question 1) what is the proper method of uninstalling those 3?
> > Question 2) What is the function of the file "Gemfile.lock". Should
> > it be copied over or will it be generated?
> > Thanks,
> > Barney
>
> Let me answer your 2nd question first. The Gemfile.lock specifies the
> versions of each gem that were selected to satisfy the dependency
> graph. You should copy it over (actually, you should check it into the
> repository; you are using a code repository, right?) and then a bundle
> install will use those versions. Without Gemfile.lock, it builds a
> new dependency graph, either with gems it finds or gems that it
> installs, and constructs a new Gemfile.lock with the results.
>
> You can also run `bundle package` to put all the .gem files into
> vendor/cache/ (by default) which can also be kept in the repository.
>
> Copy the Gemfile.lock over and see if `bundle install` doesn't just
> solve your problem.
>
> -Rob
>
> Rob Biedenharn
> [email protected] http://AgileConsultingLLC.com/
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