Ruby equivalent of virtualenv?

Question

Is there something similar to the Python utility virtualenv?

Basically it allows you to install Python packages into a sandboxed environment, so easy_install d

Answer 1

RVM works closer to how virtualenv works since it lets you sandbox different ruby versions and their gems, etc.

Answer 2

Neither sandbox, RVM, nor rbenv manage the versions of your app's gem dependencies. The tool for that is bundler.

• use a Gemfile as your application's dependency declaration
• use bundle install to install explicit versions of these dependencies into an isolated location
• use bundle exec to run your application