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Antony Courtney
@antonycourtney
I haven't tried it yet myself, but I'm eager to do so (in reply to me griping on her about exactly this sort of env hygiene issue):
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Justin Spahr-Summers
@jspahrsummers
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I don't do any development outside of VS Code devcontainers anymore code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/co Ruby is especially bad, but definitely not the only culprit
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ShriramKrishnamurthi
@ShriramKMurthi
Realizing that Ruby is maybe the one thing I most have in mind with my question. (Pretty much the main reason I use docker on my laptop is to run jekyll, so all the Ruby stuff can make a mess of just that container.)
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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
Are you using bundler to install Jekyll? I thought that usually kept things reasonably scoped to a project directory, but it's been a while since I used Ruby.
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ShriramKrishnamurthi
@ShriramKMurthi
Is "bundler" there a proper noun or common noun ("a bundler")? I can't remember how I installed Jekyll, it was years ago, and I don't use Ruby for anything else, so I just made a Docker container for the whole thing. It's suboptimal but "safe"…
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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
It’s a proper noun sorry. It’s a package thingy that installs stuff on a project specific basis rather than in a big blob of global state. IIRC if you have a Gemfile and calling `bundle` in you build stuff, then you are using it.
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Antony Courtney
@antonycourtney
Bundler does sound useful, thanks
@brendanzab
. I might pursue that if I had long-term Ruby work to do on my Mac. But for my one-off drive-by PR to some Jekyll docs the other day, just doing the work in Ubuntu running in a Parallels VM was fine. YMMV.
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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
Yeah no worries! For me I just can't stand having stuff globally installed, even more so for drive-by stuff. It means I end up having something hanging around on my computer, and have to remember how it ended up there a few years down the line. 😅
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