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Comment by vinhboy | Hacker News Reader

Thank goodness for RVM. Can't imagine what I would do without it...

There's also rbenv, which doesn't override your shell functions or require modifications to your deployment code. Patching basic shell functions like "cd". In 2011. I seriously hope you guys don't do this.

Here's the rbenv project page: https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv#readme

It's functionally equivalent to rvm minus the aforementioned negatives.

Except it does not handle neither installation (available via ruby-build), nor gemsets (has a plugin).

Yeah, the plugin architecture is cool. There's one for bundler, too: https://github.com/carsomyr/rbenv-bundler

Who needs gemsets? Isn't that the point of Bundler?

Gemsets are still useful. see http://tenderlovemaking.com/2011/11/30/psa-the-number-of-gem...

Thank you for this, I did not realize it was the case but it definitely makes sense. Back to using gemsets I suppose...

I'd rather do gemsets than preface commands with "bundle exec"

yes! Though I just discovered the other day you can use the --binstubs option which obviates the need to use bundle exec in the project

Isn't that exchanging bundle exec command for ./bin/command ? Still not as convenient as just using command

And rbenv doesn't nest. If your Ruby program execs another Ruby program, rbenv won't use the correct interpreter.

https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv/issues/121

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