Force bundler to install gems in user’s home directory

Question

Last time I’m trying to learn how to do web development with Ruby on Rails and I use my Arch GNU/Linux machine for it. The policy of Arch requires gems to be installed in the us

Answer 1

You can set an environment variables $BUNDLE_PATH or $GEM_HOME. Bundler will use those and install your gems there. If you specify --path my_path, Bundler will remember this value for future installations.

[…] but it downloads and installs all of the Rails gems one more time which is obviously what I don’t want to do.

If you want to use cached versions of your gems use --local.