If you’re working in Ruby, you’re probably using Bundler. And if you’re using bundler, you’ll probably know that typing bundle install foo will install your bundle to a directory called foo.

Of course, the problem is that Bundler remembers this configuration, and if you now run bundle install, you’ll install your bundle to… foo.

This is annoying. It’s especially annoying if you never meant to install to foo, and that was just a typo.

So: if you want to reset bundler to installing to the default location – which is your system’s current gem folder – you’re going to spend up a good hour messing around on Google looking for a plain English solution.

Can you guess who did this, and who this article is written for? That’s right, it’s me in the past!

Your solution: just run bundle install --system. That’ll install your bundle to the default system location – and continue to do so in the future. Problem solved.

(As usual, when I write about how to do something technically, it’s because I couldn’t find the answer. That’s all.)