How to make --no-ri --no-rdoc the default for gem install

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I don t use the RI or RDoc output from the gems I install in my machine or in the servers I handle  I use other means of documentation    Every gem I install installs RI and RDoc documentation by default  because I forget to set --no-ri --no-rdoc   Is there a way to make those two flags the default

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You can specify default options using the  gemrc configuration file   Documentation about gem configuration file

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On Linux  and probably Mac    echo  gem  --no-document   gt  gt     gemrc   This one-liner used to be in comments here  but somehow disappeared

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home  user   gemrc  ---  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   http   webonrails com 2008 12 03 skiping-installation-of-ri-and-rdoc-documentation-while-installing-gems

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From RVM   s documentation      Just add this line to your    gemrc or  etc gemrc    gem  --no-document     Note  The original answer was   install  --no-rdoc --no-ri  update  --no-rdoc --no-ri    This is no longer valid  the RVM docs have since been updated  thus the current answer to only include the gem directive is the correct one

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A oneliner for the windows 7 users    echo install  --no-document  amp  amp  echo update  --no-document   gt  gt  c  ProgramData gemrc

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You just add the following line to your local    gemrc file  it is in your home folder    gem  --no-document   or you can add this line to the global gemrc config file     Here is how to find it  in Linux    strace gem source 2 gt  amp 1   grep gemrc

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As mentioned above  put gem  --no-document in your gem file  However  the system-wide gemrc will not always necessarily go into  etc gemrc  If you are using RVM  or you have Ruby installed under  usr local bin  it needs to go in a different location  You can find this location by running irb and typing     require  rubygems  Gem  ConfigFile  SYSTEM WIDE CONFIG FILE   See the original post on this over here

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Step by steps   To create edit the  gemrc file from the terminal   vi     gemrc   You will open a editor called vi   paste in   gem  --no-ri --no-rdoc   click  esc -button   type in    exit   You can check if everything is correct with this command   sudo  Applications TextEdit app Contents MacOS TextEdit    gemrc

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On Windows7 the  gemrc file is not present  you can let Ruby create one like this  it s not easy to do this in explorer    gem sources --add http   rubygems org   You will have to confirm  it s unsafe   Now the file is created in your userprofile folder  c  users    You can edit the textfile to remove the source you added or you can remove it with  gem sources --remove http   rubygems org

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For Windows users  Ruby doesn t set up  gemrc file  So you have to create  gemrc file in your home directory  echo  USERPROFILE   and put following line in it   gem  --no-document   As already mentioned in previous answers  don t use --no-ri and --no-rdoc cause its deprecated  See it yourself   gem help install

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On Windows XP the path to the  gemrc file is   c  Documents and Settings All Users Application Data gemrc    and this file is not created by default  you should create it yourself

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Note that --no-ri and --no-rdoc have been deprecated according to the new guides  The recommended way is to use --no-document in    gemrc or  etc gemrc   install  --no-document update  --no-document   or  gem  --no-document

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