ruby - bundle install/update too slow

40
votes

I just installed RVM, Ruby, Rails etc. on my virtual ubuntu 12.04 32bit running in a virtualbox. Now I encounter the problem that for my first rails project bundle install or bundle update takes very long time. Even when I create a new project with rails (which includes bundle install).

I use only the standard gems:

source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem 'rails', '3.2.12'

# Bundle edge Rails instead:
# gem 'rails', :git => 'git://github.com/rails/rails.git'

group :development do
  gem 'sqlite3', '1.3.5'
end


# Gems used only for assets and not required
# in production environments by default.
group :assets do
  gem 'sass-rails',   '3.2.5'
  gem 'coffee-rails', '3.2.2'

  # See https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs#readme for more supported runtimes
  # gem 'therubyracer', :platforms => :ruby

 gem 'uglifier', '1.2.3'
end

gem 'jquery-rails', '2.0.2'

I tried bundle install without any gems but gem 'rails', '3.2.12'. After that I typed again bundle install with all gems in my gemfile. It took me 10 minutes to check for dependencies. The output of --verbose is a mix of HTTP success and HTTP redirection.

Rails version: Rails 3.2.12

Ruby version: ruby 1.9.3p392 (2013-02-22 revision 39386)

Rvm: rvm 1.18.18

bundle version: Bundler version 1.3.2

I already searched fot a solution, but nothing helped.

7
ruby-on-railsrubyrubygemsbundler
Turn your firewall back on. – sscirrus
1. ensure there is no firewall or poxy involved 2.check your dns settings, i.e. setup googles dns server (8.8.8.8), please be sure to remove any search domains 3. try to use http:// instead of https:// – reto
you run an antivirus system on a linux server? Remove that and ensure that your software is up2date. – reto
I mean the firewall/antivir on windows. Sometimes it blocks the internet traffic. – Robin Wieruch
What version of RubyGems are you using? gem -v – jswanner

7 Answers

41
votes

I want to warn: There is a security purpose for using https over http. Try at first the other answers mentioned in this thread.

Changing https to http in my Gemfile did the magic. Before I have to create the project with rails new APP --skip-bundle

14
votes

Bundler just got an update of parallel processing of gems. 

gem install bundler --pre

will solve the problem in the best possible way for now.

Source

5
votes

You can also use multiple jobs, it may improve a little bit

  bundle install --jobs 8

Here is a tutorial about it

5
votes

Bundler v1.12.x was released in 2016 and caused some users to experience slow bundle install issues.

In this instance staying with v1.11.2 is the best option (it's fast) until a fix is released.

It's worth heading over to Rubygems.org to try different versions of the bundler gem.

Check existing bundler versions, uninstall existing version, install version 1.11.2 example:

gem list | grep bundler

gem uninstall bundler -v existing-version-number

gem install bundler -v 1.11.2
3
votes

If you're still seeing this issue with Bundler 1.12.5, you may want to try updating the OpenSSL used by your Ruby.

For me this went like so:

pmorse$ bundle --version
Bundler version 1.12.5
pmorse$ ruby -ropenssl -e 'puts OpenSSL::OPENSSL_VERSION'
OpenSSL 1.0.1j 15 Oct 2014
pmorse$ openssl version
OpenSSL 0.9.8zg 14 July 2015
pmorse$ brew info openssl
openssl: stable 1.0.2h (bottled) [keg-only]

[... more brew output ...]

pmorse$ rvm reinstall ruby-2.2.2 --with-openssl-dir=`brew --prefix openssl`

[... lots of rvm output ...]

pmorse$ ruby -ropenssl -e 'puts OpenSSL::OPENSSL_VERSION'
OpenSSL 1.0.2h  3 May 2016

This should make bundle quicker again without requiring you to go from https to http.

2
votes

A developer friendly method is to override the gem server with a faster alternative.

In our case, we can configure http as a mirror to address slow https connections:

bundle config mirror.https://rubygems.org http://rubygems.org

This allows you to keep original Gemfile configuration while still using faster http connections to fetch gems.

If you wanted to switch back to https: 

bundle config --delete mirror.https://rubygems.org

bundle config has a default --global option. You can specify --local to limit configurations to local application folder.

Configuration is saved into global ~/.bundle/config and local .bundle/config.

0
votes

I know this may be basic answer but try to install developer tools from the main Ruby site. I have had a similar problem and it did work. Sometimes simple solutions are the best!

Good luck!