How to run a ruby script within bundler context?

Question

I have a Ruby script called foo.rb, and I want to run it within the context of the bundler environment. How?

bundle exec foo.rb doesn\'t work, because exec

Answer 1

You can just make it a script - add

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

to the start of the file, and make it executable. Then bundle exec foo.rb will work as expected.

(This is on unix or OSX - not sure about Windows)

See http://bundler.io/v1.15/man/bundle-exec.1.html#Loading

Also see https://coderwall.com/p/kfyzcw/execute-ruby-scripts-directly-without-bundler-exec for how to run ruby scripts with bundled dependencies, without needing bundle exec

Answer 2

Pass the script name to the ruby command:

bundle exec ruby script_name

If you also want the Rails environment:

bundle exec rails runner script_name

Answer 3

For instance, I wanted to use the same version of Rubocop as my Rails app and not the latest system one, so doing this in a script:

require 'bundler'
Bundler.require

# ...

Allowed me to use my app's version of rubocop.