GEMFILE(5)							    GEMFILE(5)



NAME
       Gemfile - A format for describing gem dependencies for Ruby programs

SYNOPSIS
       A Gemfile describes the gem dependencies required to execute associated
       Ruby code.

       Place the Gemfile in the root of the directory containing  the  associ-
       ated  code.  For instance, in a Rails application, place the Gemfile in
       the same directory as the Rakefile.

SYNTAX
       A Gemfile is evaluated as Ruby code, in a context which makes available
       a number of methods used to describe the gem requirements.

GLOBAL SOURCES (#source)
       At the top of the Gemfile, add a line for the Rubygems source that con-
       tains the gems listed in the Gemfile.



	   source "https://rubygems.org"



       It is possible, but not recommended as of Bundler 1.7, to add  multiple
       global  source  lines.  Each  of these sources MUST be a valid Rubygems
       repository.

       Sources are checked for gems  following	the  heuristics  described  in
       SOURCE  PRIORITY.  If  a  gem  is found in more than one global source,
       Bundler will print a warning after installing the gem indicating  which
       source  was used, and listing the other sources where the gem is avail-
       able. A specific source can be selected for gems that  need  to	use  a
       non-standard repository, suppressing this warning, by using the :source
       option or a source block.

RUBY (#ruby)
       If your application requires a specific Ruby version or engine, specify
       your  requirements using the ruby method, with the following arguments.
       All parameters are OPTIONAL unless otherwise specified.

   VERSION (required)
       The version of Ruby that your application requires. If your application
       requires  an  alternate	Ruby  engine,  such as JRuby or Rubinius, this
       should be the Ruby version that the engine is compatible with.



	   ruby "1.9.3"



   ENGINE (:engine)
       Each application may specify a Ruby engine. If an engine is  specified,
       an engine version must also be specified.

   ENGINE VERSION (:engine_version)
       Each  application  may specify a Ruby engine version. If an engine ver-
       sion is specified, an engine must also be specified. If the  engine  is
       "ruby" the engine version specified must match the Ruby version.



	   ruby "1.8.7", :engine => "jruby", :engine_version => "1.6.7"



   PATCHLEVEL (:patchlevel)
       Each application may specify a Ruby patchlevel.



	   ruby "2.0.0", :patchlevel => "247"



GEMS (#gem)
       Specify gem requirements using the gem method, with the following argu-
       ments. All parameters are OPTIONAL unless otherwise specified.

   NAME (required)
       For each gem requirement, list a single gem line.



	   gem "nokogiri"



   VERSION
       Each gem MAY have one or more version specifiers.



	   gem "nokogiri", ">= 1.4.2"
	   gem "RedCloth", ">= 4.1.0", "< 4.2.0"



   REQUIRE AS (:require)
       Each gem MAY specify files that should be used when  autorequiring  via
       Bundler.require.  You  may pass an array with multiple files or true if
       file you want required has same name as gem or  false  to  prevent  any
       file from being autorequired.



	   gem "redis", :require => ["redis/connection/hiredis", "redis"]
	   gem "webmock", :require => false
	   gem "debugger", :require => true



       The  argument  defaults	to the name of the gem. For example, these are
       identical:



	   gem "nokogiri"
	   gem "nokogiri", :require => "nokogiri"
	   gem "nokogiri", :require => true



   GROUPS (:group or :groups)
       Each gem MAY specify membership in one or more  groups.	Any  gem  that
       does  not  specify  membership  in  any	group is placed in the default
       group.



	   gem "rspec", :group => :test
	   gem "wirble", :groups => [:development, :test]



       The Bundler runtime allows its  two  main  methods,  Bundler.setup  and
       Bundler.require, to limit their impact to particular groups.



	   # setup adds gems to Ruby's load path
	   Bundler.setup		    # defaults to all groups
	   require "bundler/setup"	    # same as Bundler.setup
	   Bundler.setup(:default)	    # only set up the _default_ group
	   Bundler.setup(:test) 	    # only set up the _test_ group (but `not` _default_)
	   Bundler.setup(:default, :test)   # set up the _default_ and _test_ groups, but no others

	   # require requires all of the gems in the specified groups
	   Bundler.require		    # defaults to just the _default_ group
	   Bundler.require(:default)	    # identical
	   Bundler.require(:default, :test) # requires the _default_ and _test_ groups
	   Bundler.require(:test)	    # requires just the _test_ group



       The  Bundler CLI allows you to specify a list of groups whose gems bun-
       dle install should not install with the --without  option.  To  specify
       multiple  groups  to ignore, specify a list of groups separated by spa-
       ces.



	   bundle install --without test
	   bundle install --without development test



       After running bundle install --without test, bundler will remember that
       you excluded the test group in the last installation. The next time you
       run bundle install, without any --without option, bundler  will	recall
       it.

       Also,  calling  Bundler.setup  with  no	parameters, or calling require
       "bundler/setup" will setup all groups except for the ones you  excluded
       via --without (since they are obviously not available).

       Note  that on bundle install, bundler downloads and evaluates all gems,
       in order to create a single canonical list of all of the required  gems
       and  their dependencies. This means that you cannot list different ver-
       sions of the same gems in  different  groups.  For  more  details,  see
       Understanding Bundler http://bundler.io/rationale.html.

   PLATFORMS (:platforms)
       If  a  gem should only be used in a particular platform or set of plat-
       forms, you can specify them. Platforms  are  essentially  identical  to
       groups,	except	that you do not need to use the --without install-time
       flag to exclude groups of gems for other platforms.

       There are a number of Gemfile platforms:

       ruby   C Ruby (MRI) or Rubinius, but NOT Windows

       ruby_18
	      ruby AND version 1.8

       ruby_19
	      ruby AND version 1.9

       ruby_20
	      ruby AND version 2.0

       ruby_21
	      ruby AND version 2.1

       mri    Same as ruby, but not Rubinius

       mri_18 mri AND version 1.8

       mri_19 mri AND version 1.9

       mri_20 mri AND version 2.0

       mri_21 mri AND version 2.1

       rbx    Same as ruby, but only Rubinius (not MRI)

       jruby  JRuby

       mswin  Windows

       mingw  Windows 32 bit 'mingw32' platform (aka RubyInstaller)

       mingw_18
	      mingw AND version 1.8

       mingw_19
	      mingw AND version 1.9

       mingw_20
	      mingw AND version 2.0

       mingw_21
	      mingw AND version 2.1

       x64_mingw
	      Windows 64 bit 'mingw32' platform (aka RubyInstaller x64)

       x64_mingw_20
	      x64_mingw AND version 2.0

       x64_mingw_21
	      x64_mingw AND version 2.1

       As with groups, you can specify one or more platforms:



	   gem "weakling",   :platforms => :jruby
	   gem "ruby-debug", :platforms => :mri_18
	   gem "nokogiri",   :platforms => [:mri_18, :jruby]



       All  operations	involving  groups  (bundle   install,	Bundler.setup,
       Bundler.require)  behave exactly the same as if any groups not matching
       the current platform were explicitly excluded.

   SOURCE (:source)
       You can select an alternate Rubygems repository for  a  gem  using  the
       ':source' option.



	   gem "some_internal_gem", :source => "https://gems.example.com"



       This  forces  the  gem  to  be  loaded from this source and ignores any
       global sources declared at the top level of the file. If the  gem  does
       not exist in this source, it will not be installed.

       Bundler will search for child dependencies of this gem by first looking
       in the source selected for the parent, but if they are not found there,
       it  will  fall  back  on global sources using the ordering described in
       SOURCE PRIORITY.

       Selecting a specific source repository this  way  also  suppresses  the
       ambiguous gem warning described above in GLOBAL SOURCES (#source).

   GIT (:git)
       If necessary, you can specify that a gem is located at a particular git
       repository.	 The	   repository	    can       be	public
       (http://github.com/rails/rails.git)		or	       private
       (git@github.com:rails/rails.git). If the  repository  is  private,  the
       user  that you use to run bundle install MUST have the appropriate keys
       available in their $HOME/.ssh.

       Git repositories are specified using the  :git  parameter.  The	group,
       platforms,  and	require  options  are available and behave exactly the
       same as they would for a normal gem.



	   gem "rails", :git => "git://github.com/rails/rails.git"



       A git repository SHOULD have at least one file,	at  the  root  of  the
       directory  containing  the  gem, with the extension .gemspec. This file
       MUST contain a valid gem specification, as expected by  the  gem  build
       command.

       If  a  git repository does not have a .gemspec, bundler will attempt to
       create one, but it will not contain any dependencies, executables, or C
       extension  compilation  instructions. As a result, it may fail to prop-
       erly integrate into your application.

       If a git repository does have a .gemspec for the gem  you  attached  it
       to,  a version specifier, if provided, means that the git repository is
       only valid if the .gemspec specifies a  version	matching  the  version
       specifier. If not, bundler will print a warning.



	   gem "rails", "2.3.8", :git => "git://github.com/rails/rails.git"
	   # bundle install will fail, because the .gemspec in the rails
	   # repository's master branch specifies version 3.0.0



       If  a  git repository does not have a .gemspec for the gem you attached
       it to, a version specifier MUST be provided. Bundler will use this ver-
       sion in the simple .gemspec it creates.

       Git repositories support a number of additional options.

       branch, tag, and ref
	      You  MUST only specify at most one of these options. The default
	      is :branch => "master"

       submodules
	      Specify :submodules => true to cause bundler to expand any  sub-
	      modules included in the git repository

       If  a  git repository contains multiple .gemspecs, each .gemspec repre-
       sents a gem located at the same place in the file system as  the  .gem-
       spec.



	   |~rails		     [git root]
	   | |-rails.gemspec	     [rails gem located here]
	   |~actionpack
	   | |-actionpack.gemspec    [actionpack gem located here]
	   |~activesupport
	   | |-activesupport.gemspec [activesupport gem located here]
	   |...



       To  install  a  gem located in a git repository, bundler changes to the
       directory containing the gemspec, runs gem build name.gemspec and  then
       installs the resulting gem. The gem build command, which comes standard
       with Rubygems, evaluates the .gemspec in the context of	the  directory
       in which it is located.

   GITHUB (:github)
       If  the	git repository you want to use is hosted on GitHub and is pub-
       lic, you can use the :github shorthand to specify just the github user-
       name  and repository name (without the trailing ".git"), separated by a
       slash. If both the username and repository name are the same,  you  can
       omit one.



	   gem "rails", :github => "rails/rails"
	   gem "rails", :github => "rails"



       Are both equivalent to



	   gem "rails", :git => "git://github.com/rails/rails.git"



       In addition, if you wish to choose a specific branch:



	   gem "rails", :github => "rails/rails", :branch => "branch_name"



   PATH (:path)
       You  can  specify that a gem is located in a particular location on the
       file system. Relative paths are resolved relative to the directory con-
       taining the Gemfile.

       Similar	to the semantics of the :git option, the :path option requires
       that the directory in question either contains a .gemspec for the  gem,
       or that you specify an explicit version that bundler should use.

       Unlike  :git,  bundler does not compile C extensions for gems specified
       as paths.



	   gem "rails", :path => "vendor/rails"



BLOCK FORM OF SOURCE, GIT, PATH, GROUP and PLATFORMS
       The :source, :git, :path, :group, and :platforms options may be applied
       to a group of gems by using block form.



	   source "https://gems.example.com" do
	     gem "some_internal_gem"
	     gem "another_internal_gem"
	   end

	   git "git://github.com/rails/rails.git" do
	     gem "activesupport"
	     gem "actionpack"
	   end

	   platforms :ruby do
	     gem "ruby-debug"
	     gem "sqlite3"
	   end

	   group :development do
	     gem "wirble"
	     gem "faker"
	   end



       In  the	case of the git block form, the :ref, :branch, :tag, and :sub-
       modules options may be passed to the git method, and all  gems  in  the
       block will inherit those options.

GEMSPEC (#gemspec)
       If you wish to use Bundler to help install dependencies for a gem while
       it is being developed, use the gemspec method to pull in the  dependen-
       cies listed in the .gemspec file.

       The gemspec method adds any runtime dependencies as gem requirements in
       the default  group.  It	also  adds  development  dependencies  as  gem
       requirements  in the development group. Finally, it adds a gem require-
       ment on your project (:path => '.'). In conjunction with Bundler.setup,
       this allows you to require project files in your test code as you would
       if the project were installed as a gem; you  need  not  manipulate  the
       load path manually or require project files via relative paths.

       The  gemspec  method  supports  optional  :path,  :name,  and :develop-
       ment_group options, which control where bundler looks for the .gemspec,
       what  named  .gemspec  it uses (if more than one is present), and which
       group development dependencies are included in.

SOURCE PRIORITY
       When attempting to locate a gem to satisfy a gem  requirement,  bundler
       uses the following priority order:

       1.  The source explicitly attached to the gem (using :source, :path, or
	   :git)

       2.  For implicit gems (dependencies of explicit gems), any source, git,
	   or  path repository declared on the parent. This results in bundler
	   prioritizing the ActiveSupport gem from the	Rails  git  repository
	   over ones from rubygems.org

       3.  The	sources  specified  via  global  source  lines, searching each
	   source in your Gemfile from last added to first added.






				  August 2014			    GEMFILE(5)
