Why Bundle Install is installing gems in vendor/bundle?

Question

Whenever I do bundle install all of the gems get installed at

app_dir/vendor/bundle

path and consumes loads of disk space. I also tried installing gems where it should get installed i.e gemsets while development by this:

bundle install --no-deployement

but this isn't working for me and installeing gems at vendor/bundle. How can I make it to be installed globally for all applications or in ruby gemsets location ? I also tried removing .bundle/config but nothing changed.

I am using:

rvm version: 1.23.14
ruby version: 2.0.0-p247
rails 3.2.13

Here is my ~/.bash_profile:

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin
eval "$(rbenv init -)"
alias pg='pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log'

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM into a shell session *as a function*
[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM function

My ~/.bashrc:

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin # Add RVM to PATH for scripting

Some other information that you might need:

aman@Amandeeps-MacBook-Pro ~/Projects/qe (develop)*$ which bundle
/Users/aman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247@global/bin/bundle

aman@Amandeeps-MacBook-Pro ~/Projects/qe (develop)*$ rbenv which bundle
/Users/aman/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p247/bin/bundle

amandeep@Amandeeps-MacBook-Pro ~/Projects/qe (develop)*$ rbenv which ruby
/Users/aman/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p247/bin/ruby

aman@Amandeeps-MacBook-Pro ~/Projects/qe (develop)*$ rbenv gemset active
rbenv: NO such command `gemset'

aman@Amandeeps-MacBook-Pro ~/Projects/qe (develop)*$ which rails
/Users/aman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247@global/bin/rails

I tried this also but didn't helped:

bundle install --system

and removing .bundle directory.

Please help me in installing gems in gemsets not vendor/bundle or a default place.

Answer 1

In your project folder you will have .bundle directory that holds configuration for bundler. try deleting that folder. it should reset the install path for your gems back to system-wide settings.

In the case you just want to edit the install path, opening .bundle/config with your favorite editor should show you the path to vendor/bundle. Removing that line will restore it to defaults without removing other configs you might have.

Also, another less frequent scenario is your system-wide settings being messed up. According to @NaoiseGolden:

I had to delete .bundle from my Home folder (rm -rf ~/.bundle). You can check out your configuration running bundle env