getting rid of ruby gems that won't die

Question

I\'ve got a few ruby gems that won\'t go away.

I think it has to do with when I installed them. Occasionally I have forgotten to use \"sudo\" before doing a gem i

Answer 1

Assuming that gem clean (or sudo gem clean) doesn't work, I would try the following to totally remove all gems from your system:

You can see where gems have been installed by running the command:

gem env paths

To remove all the gems on your system, simply remove the folders returned by this command.

Additionally, on OSX Leopard, default gems are installed in this folder:

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8

If this folder exists on your system, as before you can remove this folder to ensure all gems are deleted.