How to avoid shared bundle folders during deployment

Question

We are using capistrano to deploy our rails app and the dev / production version of the app uses the shared/bundle folder. Is there a way to prevent creation of shared/bundle and ask capistrano to use individual gemsets across different stages?

Answer 1

Would setting a bundle_dir work for you?

set :bundle_dir, "/my/bundle/path"

I think by default it is set to:

set :bundle_dir, File.join(fetch(:shared_path), 'bundle')

Answer 2

When you say stages, do you mean that you have different environments on the same box, and are using capistrano/multistage?

If so, giving your application a different name for each stage will separate the shared directory.

In deploy/development.rb

set :application, "myapp-dev"

In deploy/production.rb

set :application, "myapp-prod"