BUNDLE-PRISTINE(1)

bundle-pristine 💅✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for bundle-pristine — a lil General Commands Manual icon that lives in section 1 and exists for exactly one job: restoring installed gems to their pristine condition. no cap. 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

bundle-pristine — restores installed gems to their pristine condition 🧼✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bundle pristine

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one command, zero drama. 💅

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, pristine takes the installed gems in your bundle and restores them to their pristine condition using the local gem cache from RubyGems. and if we're talking about git gems? bestie, a forced checkout gets performed. periodt. 🔥

for further explanation: bundle pristine ignores unpacked files on disk. in other words, this command utilizes the local .gem cache or the gem's git repository as if one were installing from scratch. like, full factory reset energy. ✨

Note: the Bundler gem cannot be restored to its original state with pristine. also, you cannot use bundle pristine on gems with a 'path' option in the Gemfile, because bundler has no original copy it can restore from. it's giving nothing to work with, unfortunately. 😭

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🌈 When is it practical to use bundle pristine? 🌈

it comes in handy when a developer is debugging a gem. bundle pristine is a great way to get rid of experimental changes to a gem that one may not want. bye bye, lil experiments 🫶

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🎀 Why use bundle pristine over gem pristine --all? 🎀

both commands are very similar, ngl. for context:

• bundle pristine, without arguments, cleans all gems from the lockfile. 🔒
• gem pristine --all cleans all installed gems for that Ruby version. 💎

if a developer forgets which gems in their project they might have been debugging, the Rubygems gem pristine [GEMNAME] command may be inconvenient. 🙈 one can avoid waiting for gem pristine --all, and instead run bundle pristine. it's giving efficiency, it's giving main character energy, it's giving ✨slay✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this lil masterpiece comes to you from April 2026, courtesy of the BUNDLE-PRISTINE(1) of the General Commands Manual. go forth and restore ur gems, you gorgeous genius 👑💖