How do I completely remove all Ruby gems?

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I am trying to completely remove my Ruby and Rails installation.

After uninstalling Ruby with apt-get remove ruby1.9.1 I see that all the Ruby stuff like ruby, rake and irb from "/usr/bin" was removed but the gems remain here:

/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems

What's the best way to remove these? Again, I want to uninstall everything so I can try this install again.

rm -r /var/lib/gems/ ???

apt-get remove --purge might be what you are looking for – Feb 11 '13 at 18:15 — , Feb 11 '13 at 18:15
Does dpkg -S /path/to/gemfile show any package? – Feb 11 '13 at 23:48 — , Feb 11 '13 at 23:48

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 11 '13 at 19:52

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After arm wrestling with this for most of the day, I uninstalled everything, installed RVM and then installed Ruby and Rails with RVM. Much, much better.

answered Feb 11 '13 at 19:52

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 01 '13 at 10:57

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You should have 'gem uninstall *' or --purge on apt-get remove. However, you can safely

rm -r /var/lib/gems/

answered Jun 01 '13 at 10:57

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How do I completely remove all Ruby gems?

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