Bundler does not respect $GEM_HOME

[ashmoran]

Not sure if this is a bug or not.

I'm using rvm which manages its own gemsets. So if you do 'bundle install', Bundler's default location (in head, as of today) of ~/.bundle means the gems can't be found. Currently I'm having to do:

% bundle install $GEM_HOME

To get the rvm Ruby to see them.

Wayne Seguin seems to think 0.9.3 behaviour was supposed to be to use $GEM_HOME. What's the correct behaviour here?

Cheers - Ashley

[gavinhughes]

Voted up. "bundle install" installs gems to ~/.gems, creating the directory if none exists. The install should instead default to $GEM_HOME.

[jamiecobbett]

+1

[carllerche]

bundle install actually installs to ~/.bundle by default. bundle install $GEM_HOME should work as expected on master.

[ashmoran]

What I found surprising - and I believe gavinhughes and jamiecobbett are thinking the same - is that bundle install $GEM_HOME is not the default. It's really strange doing a bundle install and then not being able to run the software you thought you just installed the gems for.