community.general.bundler module – Manage Ruby Gem dependencies with Bundler

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 4.8.3).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.bundler.

Synopsis

  • Manage installation and Gem version dependencies for Ruby using the Bundler gem

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

binstub_directory

path

Only applies if state is present. Specifies the directory to install any gem bins files to. When executed the bin files will run within the context of the Gemfile and fail if any required gem dependencies are not installed. If chdir is set then this path is relative to chdir

chdir

path

The directory to execute the bundler commands from. This directory needs to contain a valid Gemfile or .bundle/ directory

If not specified, it will default to the temporary working directory

clean

boolean

Only applies if state is present. If set removes any gems on the target host that are not in the gemfile

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

deployment_mode

boolean

Only applies if state is present. If set it will install gems in ./vendor/bundle instead of the default location. Requires a Gemfile.lock file to have been created prior

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

exclude_groups

list / elements=string

A list of Gemfile groups to exclude during operations. This only applies when state is present. Bundler considers this a ‘remembered’ property for the Gemfile and will automatically exclude groups in future operations even if exclude_groups is not set

executable

string

The path to the bundler executable

extra_args

string

A space separated string of additional commands that can be applied to the Bundler command. Refer to the Bundler documentation for more information

gem_path

path

Only applies if state is present. Specifies the directory to install the gems into. If chdir is set then this path is relative to chdir

If not specified the default RubyGems gem paths will be used.

gemfile

path

Only applies if state is present. The path to the gemfile to use to install gems.

If not specified it will default to the Gemfile in current directory

local

boolean

If set only installs gems from the cache on the target host

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

state

string

The desired state of the Gem bundle. latest updates gems to the most recent, acceptable version

Choices:

  • present ← (default)

  • latest

user_install

boolean

Only applies if state is present. Installs gems in the local user’s cache or for all users

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

Examples

- name: Install gems from a Gemfile in the current directory
  community.general.bundler:
    state: present
    executable: ~/.rvm/gems/2.1.5/bin/bundle

- name: Exclude the production group from installing
  community.general.bundler:
    state: present
    exclude_groups: production

- name: Install gems into ./vendor/bundle
  community.general.bundler:
    state: present
    deployment_mode: yes

- name: Install gems using a Gemfile in another directory
  community.general.bundler:
    state: present
    gemfile: ../rails_project/Gemfile

- name: Update Gemfile in another directory
  community.general.bundler:
    state: latest
    chdir: ~/rails_project

Authors

  • Tim Hoiberg (@thoiberg)