Uninstall all rbenv gems

uninstall_gems.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

uninstall() {
  list=`gem list --no-versions`
  for gem in $list; do
    gem uninstall $gem -aIx
  done
  gem list
  gem install bundler
}

#rbenv versions --bare
RBENVPATH=`rbenv root`
echo $RBENVPATH
RUBIES=`ls $RBENVPATH/versions`
for ruby in $RUBIES; do
  echo '---------------------------------------'
  echo $ruby
  rbenv local $ruby
  uninstall
done

Legal! Cool!

Amazing script. Thanks!

+99

Works great!! Thanks a lot!

This is a great script. However, there's a minor hiccup: I got

ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::InstallError)
    gem "bigdecimal" cannot be uninstalled because it is a default gem

Is there a fork that addresses this?

Nice one! I just wanted to remove one gem prefix for all ruby versions and was easy with this.
Just modified

list=`gem list --no-versions`

to

list=`gem list my_stupid_gem_prefix --no-versions`

Works great, thanks!

this== greatness

Wow, thanks for this script!

I am new to Ubuntu and I want to know how do you run this script. Any suggestions?

Works Thanks! Nice Script!

cool 👍

You are a life-saver. Thank you.
:)

I am new to Ubuntu and I want to know how do you run this script. Any suggestions?
@konstantin0s
I am sure you may have found the solution by now but just in case, check this:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/38661/how-do-i-run-sh-files

Thank you!

Thanks. Saved us the trouble

Thanks!

I elaborated a version to cleanup only old versions of the gems:

#!/bin/sh
RBENVPATH=`rbenv root`
echo $RBENVPATH
RUBIES=`ls $RBENVPATH/versions`
for ruby in $RUBIES; do
  echo '---------------------------------------'
  echo $ruby
  rbenv local $ruby
  gem cleanup
done

I elaborated a version to cleanup only old versions of the gems:

#!/bin/sh
RBENVPATH=`rbenv root`
echo $RBENVPATH
RUBIES=`ls $RBENVPATH/versions`
for ruby in $RUBIES; do
  echo '---------------------------------------'
  echo $ruby
  rbenv local $ruby
  gem cleanup
done

nice script, thank you

Updated solution needed, because of the following header:

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

aasm (5.3.0)
abbrev (default: 0.1.1)
ace-rails-ap (4.3)
etc...

Fix:

--no-verbose is what removes the header.
(We may need another fix in the future if things change again)

#!/bin/bash

gem_remove() {
  gem list --no-versions --no-verbose | xargs gem uninstall -aIx
  gem list
}

gem_remove_all() {
  #rbenv versions --bare
  RBENVPATH=`rbenv root`
  echo $RBENVPATH
  RUBIES=`ls $RBENVPATH/versions`
  for ruby in $RUBIES; do
    echo '---------------------------------------'
    echo $ruby
    rbenv local $ruby
    gem_remove
  done
}

I don't include gem install bundler at the end.
Many times in Rails, Gemfile.lock will include a specific bundler version, so I prefer to just install that version manually.