How to remove a gem

I would like to remove (uninstall) a particular gem. I installed the gem creator's beta copy of their next release, but it's problematic, and I neet to revert to the most recent stable version.

How might i uninstall a particular gem?

You *might* start with `gem --help`

FWIW,

I would like to remove (uninstall) a particular gem. I installed the

gem creator’s beta copy of their next release, but it’s problematic,

and I neet to revert to the most recent stable version.

How might i uninstall a particular gem?

You’ll use the ‘uninstall’ option instead of ‘install’. For example,

gem uninstall

If you used ‘sudo’ to install the gem, then you’ll have to do the

following:

sudo gem uninstall

Good luck,

-Conrad

If you know the version (gem list GEMNAME) then you can:

gem uninstall GEMNAME --version=VERSION

i.e.: gem list test-unit *** LOCAL GEMS *** test-unit (2.0.5, 1.2.3)

gem uninstall test-unit --version=1.2.3 Successfully uninstalled test-unit-1.2.3