How to completely uninstall rails 3.0.0.beta3 and all its dependencies?

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If I do sudo gem uninstall rails -v 3.0.0.beta3, it uninstalls rails but leaves the beta3 versions of activerecord, actionmailer, etc. How do I completely uninstall rails 3.0.0.beta3 and all its dependencies automatically? I would like a clean slate for the RC and final releases.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 10 '10 at 18:03

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$ gem list
...
$ sudo gem uninstall {gem-you-don't-want} {version-you-don't-want}
$ {rinse-and-repeat}

answered Jun 10 '10 at 18:03

yfeldblum

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well sure, if you want to do it the hard way! i was hoping dependencies also worked for UNinstall :) – Mark Richman Jun 10 '10 at 19:27
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@Mark Richman: RubyGems doesn't track which gems were installed manually and which ones were installed automatically as dependencies. Therefore, it simply *cannot* know which ones are still needed. – Jörg W Mittag Jun 10 '10 at 23:16

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 10 '10 at 19:43

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If your situation is that you have installed beta 4 and want to get rid of beta 3, you can simply run

gem cleanup

which removes all but the latest version of all your gems (wiping out beta 3 and leaving you with beta 4).

answered Jun 10 '10 at 19:43

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 07 '11 at 12:49

You can list out all the dependencies of a specific rails version

$ gem dependency rails -v 3.1.0
Gem rails-3.1.0
  actionmailer (= 3.1.0)
  actionpack (= 3.1.0)
  activerecord (= 3.1.0)
  activeresource (= 3.1.0)
  activesupport (= 3.1.0)
  bundler (~> 1.0)
  railties (= 3.1.0)

Unfortunately there isn't any single command to remove all dependencies. You have to manually remove each dependent gem

$ gem remove activerecord -v 3.1.0

You can also view reverse dependencies by using the **-v** flag

    $ gem dependency rails -r

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Aug 02 '13 at 08:53

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you just try this command.it will help to uninstall all rails gem uninstall railties I think this is only method to fully uninstall all version of rails

edited Aug 02 '13 at 08:53

arnoapp

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answered Aug 02 '13 at 08:32

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 10 '10 at 18:00

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you can't do it automatically unless you write your own script wrapper around the gem uninstall command

just manually do gem uninstall on the other files like activerecord, activesupport, etc...

answered Jun 10 '10 at 18:00

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How to completely uninstall rails 3.0.0.beta3 and all its dependencies?

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