Using the plugin in an existing project

[amitavmohanty01]

In an setup where rbenv is installed and gems are installed too, what are the steps to activate the plugin without re-installing the gems?

[jf]

It sounds like you were previously just using rbenv without gemsets, but now you want to try out rbenv-gemset?

rbenv-gemset wasn't designed for this, fyi. If you want to, you can try copying (or symlinking) the gem directories to the appropriate directory at ~/.rbenv/versions/<rbenv version name>/gemsets/<gemset name>/gems

[amitavmohanty01]

You read the use case correctly. The workaround sounds fine. I shall try it. What do you think about extending rbenv-gemset to encompass the use case? It might be a just a script that performs the symlinking as you mentioned to start with.

[jf]

This isn't a very common use case that I know of, and there are implications for officially "supporting" it, so I'm not so keen on this. You're free to try and let me know how it goes though.

[tangrufus]

Seems we are automatically fall to "previously just using rbenv without gemsets" if using with rbenv-default-gems.

[0llirocks]

Just ran into the same issue, I fixed it using bundler

bundle install --redownload

It will reinstall all gems and put the gems in the correct dir (i.e. gemset dir).

EDIT: I know OP said "without re-installing the gems", but maybe someone else finds this question and is fine with re-installing.