The Missing Bundler Features

Over the last few months, there has been a lot of talk about making Bundler faster, both by improving it directly, or by reimplementing it in another language, and while it may surprise some, that didn’t excite me much. Don’t get me wrong, all other things being equal, faster is better, so if Bundler gets faster without me having to change my toolchain one bit, I’ll happily take it. But I certainly would not bother migrating to something else just for speed. Instead, there are a number of features I believe Bundler is missing, and that over the years, I tried to convince Bundler’s maintainers to consider them, but without any success. Why Bundler Is Fast Enough For Me Given how much I talk about performance on this blog, it might surprise you to hear I don’t care about Bundler performance. The reality is that I very rarely, if ever, have to wait for Bundler. Most of the time, all gems are already installed locally, so it completes instantly. A few times, a couple of gems are missing,…