Specify RVM Gemset for Each App

Using rvm is always a bit confusing for me – I never fully understand exactly how its working. One thing I learned recently was how to specifcy a specific gemset for an app. I think when you refresh a terminal session, rvm switches back to the default gemset. I was upgrading to Rails 5, and I wanted to specificy to use my rails5.0 gemset with my app for testing. Here’s how you do it:

 rvm --ruby-version use 1.9.3@my_app

where my_app is the name of your gemset. This creates two files in the root of your application: .ruby-version and .ruby-gemset. These files specify the ruby version and gemset to use for your app.

Hope that makes sense, and if its wrong please let me know!

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Rails Generator Error Not Working, Not Creating Files

I had a really weird issue today, but was hard to debug because no actual error was thrown.

I would run the rails g model User and the output in Terminal looked normal, it says it created the files.

However, when I checked the directory, no files were actually created. This was super frustrating and very weird.

I was able to find an answer from this SO question, although I have no idea why it works or what ‘spring’ is.

I first ran spring stop, then ran my migration, and it worked great.

If anyone knows more about this please share!