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Ubuntu: Prune ruby gems
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remove_ruby_gems.md

Remove all ruby gems installed system-wide

What

Remove all gems

Why

Prepare to move away from system-installs of gems to vendor/bundle "packages"

How

for gem in $(gem list | awk '{print $1}'); do echo "Y" | gem clean $gem ; done

for gem in $(gem list | awk '{print $1}'); do echo "Y" | gem uninstall $gem ; done

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deoren commented Jan 23, 2018

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