I’m starting to use rvm with my rails projects and am wondering how to be use it in conjunction with bundler, as bundler already does a good job of managing the gems i need in my project.

To keep things simple for now, i’ve decided to keep bundler doing what it’s been doing (managing the project gems), and use rvm to simply specify the versions of ruby and bundler to use within the project.

So, in my project folder, i have 2 files, 1 for rvm and 1 for bundler:

• .rvmrc
  This includes only the following:
  rvm use 1.9.2@development –create
  
• Gemfile
  Includes all gems need within the project

The @development specifies that the app is using this rvm gemset, meaning that if i wish, i could have multiple gemsets and switch between them. As i’m currently handing off most of the gem management responsibility to bundler, this doesn’t makes sense at the moment, but could be useful later as i possibly migrate further responsibility over to rvm over time.