Making a Ruby project that is not a gem (or some other kind)

Question

I'm working on a project currently that I don't want to be a gem (or some other kind of project). How would I go about setting it up so that I can still have the same compatibility requirement abilities as a gem (e.g. Gemfile dependencies) but simultaneously not be a gem (or some other kind of project)?

Accepted Answer

You have to actually try to build a gem so this is easy!

to use bundler without Rails, a gem, whatever just create a directory

```
  mkdir my-non-gem-project
  cd my-non-gem-project
```

install bundler

```
  gem install bundler
```

and initialize your Gemfile

```
  bundle init
```

that will create a `Gemfile` for you and you can add to it and run `bundle` to install the dependencies from it

The simplest way to use bundler in your project would then be to open your main app file and add

```
require 'bundler/setup'
Bundler.require
```

This will require all of the gems you have in your Gemfile in the file this is added to. I am pretty sure that this file must be in the same directory as your Gemfile. More information here

Have fun with your Ruby project!

Making a Ruby project that is not a gem (or some other kind)

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