Comments on: How to uninstall / remove Ruby Gems (on Ubuntu)? http://mohamedaslam.com/how-to-uninstall-remove-ruby-gems/ Freelance Web Developer, Rubyist, Visual Designer and Blogger based on Kandy, Sri Lanka. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:13:21 +0530 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Aslam http://mohamedaslam.com/how-to-uninstall-remove-ruby-gems/comment-page-1/#comment-255 Aslam Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:14:16 +0000 http://mohamedaslam.com/?p=187#comment-255 Open the terminal and type <code>sudo apt-get uninstall ruby</code> Open the terminal and type

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sudo apt-get uninstall ruby
]]> By: pooja http://mohamedaslam.com/how-to-uninstall-remove-ruby-gems/comment-page-1/#comment-253 pooja Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:34:42 +0000 http://mohamedaslam.com/?p=187#comment-253 how to uninstall ruby 1.8 from ubuntu how to uninstall ruby 1.8 from ubuntu

]]> By: Sam Gilman http://mohamedaslam.com/how-to-uninstall-remove-ruby-gems/comment-page-1/#comment-228 Sam Gilman Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:25:55 +0000 http://mohamedaslam.com/?p=187#comment-228 Thanks, got those removed. Thanks, got those removed.

]]> By: chandima http://mohamedaslam.com/how-to-uninstall-remove-ruby-gems/comment-page-1/#comment-195 chandima Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:57:01 +0000 http://mohamedaslam.com/?p=187#comment-195 very good thing...i learned lot friom your posts.....all the best... very good thing…i learned lot friom your posts…..all the best…

]]> By: Aslam http://mohamedaslam.com/how-to-uninstall-remove-ruby-gems/comment-page-1/#comment-159 Aslam Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:14:24 +0000 http://mohamedaslam.com/?p=187#comment-159 Thank you very much for your feedback Gaveen! :D Yeah! If can, please comment the exact steps. Waiting to read that! Thank you very much for your feedback Gaveen! :D

Yeah! If can, please comment the exact steps. Waiting to read that!

]]> By: Gaveen http://mohamedaslam.com/how-to-uninstall-remove-ruby-gems/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Gaveen Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:43:24 +0000 http://mohamedaslam.com/?p=187#comment-157 Another good one, Aslam. :) A little addition here. If you wish to get rid of all the gems (or the complete Ruby installation), it is best to uninstall all the installed gems first. This is because some gems place executables outside the Ruby installation (Eg: directories within $PATH). So if you just delete the Ruby installation, these files become stale and might cause problems in future. You can find more information about your RubyGems environment by the command: $ gem env There we couple of more things in the case you are completely wiping a Ruby installation (Eg: to setup a new one). Unfortunately I cannot remember those. If I run into then again, I'll comment here. Keep it up. :) Another good one, Aslam. :)

A little addition here. If you wish to get rid of all the gems (or the complete Ruby installation), it is best to uninstall all the installed gems first. This is because some gems place executables outside the Ruby installation (Eg: directories within $PATH). So if you just delete the Ruby installation, these files become stale and might cause problems in future.

You can find more information about your RubyGems environment by the command:
$ gem env

There we couple of more things in the case you are completely wiping a Ruby installation (Eg: to setup a new one). Unfortunately I cannot remember those. If I run into then again, I’ll comment here.

Keep it up. :)

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