Comments on: Using Bundler in Real Life

By: cec

cec — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:18:52 +0000

Hi, thank you for this post about workflows with bundler!
However, I’m missing how to deal with locking when deploying in situations where some gems are in the development group, but not in the production group and vice-versa.
After deploying the app with capistrano, I find myself connecting to my production box, removing the gemfile.lock and running bundle install –without development.
Given how sharp and clear the organization of your projects is, I’m certain that I’m missing some fundamental concepts…

By: todd

todd — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:00:44 +0000

when i “bundle install –disable-shared-gems” All the gems are installed from system gems, shouldn’t this force the gem repo into my application… the concern is having to rely on the environment for things like

which unicorn_rails

where as before it could be known that unicorn_rails would always be in the APP_ROOT/bin

Make sense?

By: John Lauck

John Lauck — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:00:42 +0000

Similar to @BradGessler’s question: How do you handle multiple developers working on a project? It seems common that developers could use different gems in their dev environments. Database systems are the first that come to mind. Some developer might use sqlite while another uses mysql.

By: Joe Van Dyk

Joe Van Dyk — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:10:33 +0000

Is there a recommended way to deploy apps that use bundler? Hopefully bundler 1.0 will come with some capistrano recipes or something.

By: Brad Gessler

Brad Gessler — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:48:49 +0000

Hey folks, Brad from Poll Everywhere here. We’re upgrading to bundler 0.9.5 and ran into a questions using Bundler with git.

First, should the .bundle folder be ignored? If so, there is an issue when another developer pulls a project and runs ‘bundle install’. The bundler gets to the end of the install process and blows up because .bundle/environment.rb is not found. The error messaging isn’t very clear around this problem either, but a ‘bundle lock’ command fixes it since the generates the .bundle folder. I’m positive that .bundle should be ignored in .git because it contains absolute paths to the gem files, so the bundle install command should probably generate this file if its not present.

By: mgutz

mgutz — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:11:42 +0000

Is there any talk of integrating Bundler into rubygems? Using a Gemfile instead of .gemspec for dependencies would provide consistency when creating either an app or a gem. IMHO, Bundler is gem++.

gem check –gemfile
gem install –gemfile
…

By: UnderpantsGnome

UnderpantsGnome — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:49:33 +0000

@sven, @christian – rvm may be able to help you with this scenario to some extent. If not out of the box and you can make a decent case for it Wayne would probably help you get it added. He’s been tremendously helpful.

http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/

By: Larry Sprock

Larry Sprock — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:21:54 +0000

No amount of hackery or tom foolery has made it work for me in rails 2.3.x on a fresh app or otherwise… So seems there is still much work to be done before 1.0. I was and will continue to use 0.8.1 until then.

By: Christiaan

Christiaan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:43:51 +0000

@SvenFuchs This I would like to know also.

By: Scott Bronson

Scott Bronson — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:15:56 +0000

Won’t bundle unlock; bundle lock update ALL gems in my project to the latest gems on my system? Seems a bit scarier of an operation than you imply.

Bundler rocks BTW. Handling gems in complex Rails apps used to be a real problem.