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Probably most of the time you would like to skip ri and RDoc installation while installing some new gems, specially on production server.

I do like to skip ri and RDoc documentation while installing gems on my development machine, because it takes more time to generate ri and RDoc then actual installation of gem.

We can skip rdoc and ri documentation while installing a gem by:

[bash]
gem install rails –no-ri –no-rdoc
[/bash]

I am sure that you would not like to give –no-ri and –no-rdoc every time you install a gem. To avoid this situation, you can create/update $HOME/.gemrc file with following option:

[bash]
gem: –no-ri –no-rdoc
[/bash]

Now every time you install a gem, it will skip installation of ri and RDoc for the gem.

My .gemrc file looks like:

[bash]

:update_sources: true
:sources:
- http://gems.rubyforge.org/
- http://gems.github.com
:benchmark: false
:bulk_threshold: 1000
:backtrace: false
:verbose: true
gem: –no-ri –no-rdoc
[/bash]

12 Responses so far.

  1. sazwqa says:

    Nice trick, is there any reference for all the setting we can set here ?

  2. Akhil Bansal says:

    No, I don’t have such reference. It was just a hit and try

  3. Why would somebody wanna do this?
    Dont you like “gem server” as your local doc server?

  4. Akhil Bansal says:

    @Abhishek: It depends person to person, I don’t use “gem server”. Infact, I just used it once or twice. So why should I wait for ri and rdoc installation, even I don’t use them.

  5. PhilT says:

    You’d want to do this on a production server for example a cloud based system as you’re starting from scratch you want gem install to be as quick as possible. This is a great solution in combination with config.gem and rake gems:install. Thanks!

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  10. Mohit Jain says:

    Thats a great trick… installing ri and rdoc is really boring…

  11. nikhil yeole says:

    Thanks Akhil for the useful post. It works great. :)

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