My app has a Gemfile in the root directory, but it’s not needed for building on netlify. How can I disable automatic bundler/Ruby gem installation during the build process? It’s unnecessarily slowing it down when I only want to install javascript deps on netlify.
Remove the Gemfile so the build system doesn’t read it.
I need the Gemfile in my repo for non-netlify related scripts. Is there a way to remove it programmatically before the build happens?
Not that I am aware of.
You can trick Netlify into skipping installing gems straight from within your gemfile:
return true if ENV['NETLIFY']
source 'https://rubygems.org'
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more discussion here: How to ignore a Gemfile when building a site - #15 by fool
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