Do I have to manually uninstall all dependent gems?

Question

I tried to uninstall datamapper using the command gem uninstall dm-core.

But it seems that a whole bunch of dependent gems also need to be uninstalled.

Answer 1

The problem when running these sort of uninstalls is that they go down the list of gems in order so if a gum is uninstallable then you end up getting stuck. Run the below a few times and it should remove all the gems it is allowed to.

gem list | cut -d" " -f1 | sort -R | xargs -n1 gem uninstall -aIx