How to remove a gem

RVince

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Nov 3, 2009, 8:55:36 PM11/3/09

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I would like to remove (uninstall) a particular gem. I installed the
gem creator's beta copy of their next release, but it's problematic,
and I neet to revert to the most recent stable version.

How might i uninstall a particular gem?

Hassan Schroeder

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Nov 3, 2009, 8:57:48 PM11/3/09

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On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:55 PM, RVince <rvin...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> How might i uninstall a particular gem?

You *might* start with `gem --help`

FWIW,
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Conrad Taylor

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Nov 3, 2009, 9:23:17 PM11/3/09

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On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:55 PM, RVince <rvin...@hotmail.com> wrote:

You'll use the 'uninstall' option instead of 'install'. For example,

gem uninstall <gem-name>

If you used 'sudo' to install the gem, then you'll have to do the

following:

sudo gem uninstall <gem-name>

Good luck,

-Conrad

Rick

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Nov 3, 2009, 11:07:49 PM11/3/09

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If you know the version (gem list GEMNAME) then you can:

gem uninstall GEMNAME --version=VERSION

i.e.:
gem list test-unit
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
test-unit (2.0.5, 1.2.3)

gem uninstall test-unit --version=1.2.3
Successfully uninstalled test-unit-1.2.3

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