What is the best way to uninstall gems from a rails3 project?

Question

I installed all of my gems using bundler via the Gemfile. I thought (mistakenly) that if I deleted a gem from my Gemfile and ran \'bundle install\' that the deleted gems would b

Answer 1

You must use 'gem uninstall gem_name' to uninstall a gem.

Note that if you installed the gem system-wide (ie. sudo bundle install) then you may need to specify the binary directory using the -n option, to ensure binaries belonging to the gem are removed. For example

sudo gem uninstall gem_name  -n /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/bin