# Rails 3 (beta) - Where are 'bundle' gems installed? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 11, 2010, 4:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-3-beta-where-are-bundle-gems-installed/183316 "2010-02-11T16:48:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![johnt519](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@johnt519](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnt519)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 4:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-3-beta-where-are-bundle-gems-installed/183316/1 "2010-02-11T16:48:50Z")
In testing out Rails 3 (beta) and following the blog posts to get sample apps created, and updating old apps, I used the new ‘bundle’ command to get all the required gems installed. But - I’m wondering where it is installing these gems? I just did ‘bundle install’ and it installed a bunch of stuff (that I already had in my Ruby system gems): Fetching source index from [http://gemcutter.org](http://gemcutter.org) Resolving dependencies Installing abstract (1.0.0) from system gems Installing actionmailer (3.0.0.beta) from system gems Installing actionpack (3.0.0.beta) from system gems Installing activemodel (3.0.0.beta) from system gems Installing activerecord (3.0.0.beta) from system gems Installing activeresource (3.0.0.beta) from system gems Installing activesupport (3.0.0.beta) from system gems Installing arel (0.2.1) from system gems Installing builder (2.1.2) from system gems Installing bundler (0.9.4) from rubygems repository at [http://gemcutter.org](http://gemcutter.org) Installing cgi\_multipart\_eof\_fix (2.5.0) from system gems Installing daemons (1.0.10) from system gems Installing erubis (2.6.5) from system gems Installing fastthread (1.0.7) from system gems Installing gem\_plugin (0.2.3) from system gems Installing i18n (0.3.3) from system gems Installing mail (2.1.2) from system gems Installing memcache-client (1.7.8) from system gems Installing mime-types (1.16) from system gems Installing mongrel (1.1) from system gems Installing mongrel\_experimental (1.1) from system gems Installing rack (1.1.0) from system gems Installing rack-mount (0.4.7) from rubygems repository at [http://gemcutter.org](http://gemcutter.org) Installing rack-test (0.5.3) from system gems Installing rails (3.0.0.beta) from system gems Installing railties (3.0.0.beta) from system gems Installing rake (0.8.7) from system gems Installing sqlite3-ruby (1.2.5) from system gems Installing text-format (1.0.0) from system gems Installing text-hyphen (1.0.0) from system gems Installing thor (0.13.0) from system gems Installing tzinfo (0.3.16) from system gems Your bundle is complete! There’s nothing in my .gem folder in my home directory. Not to mention if I do the bundle install again, it goes ahead and re-installs everything. Or at least looks like it does. I would figure it’d know what was already there? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![johnt519](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@johnt519](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnt519)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-3-beta-where-are-bundle-gems-installed/183316/2 "2010-02-11T17:31:59Z")
On Feb 11, 11:48 pm, “John T.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Installing abstract (1.0.0) from system gems > Installing daemons (1.0.10) from system gems > Installing rack-mount (0.4.7) from rubygems repository athttp://gemcutter.org > > There’s nothing in my .gem folder in my home directory. Not to mention > if I do the bundle install again, it goes ahead and re-installs > everything. Or at least looks like it does. I would figure it’d know > what was already there? > > ## Thanks > > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. I’m getting the same behavior, though I found most of the gems (gems which weren’t installed yet as system gems) at ~/.bundle