14 engineers on Hacker News describe using Bundler first-hand: 5 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“rbenv+bundler solved so many problems for me”
endorse · personal · irjustin · 2025-03-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The package manager itself has only helped my life as a developer, the tricky part is picking trustworthy dependencies.”
endorse · personal · dasil003 · 2014-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Bundler does a better job of managing Ruby dependencies than dpkg/yum does.”
endorse · production · vinceguidry · 2013-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use a Ubuntu box for development and rvm/bundler, virtualenv/pip...cover my needs”
endorse · personal · irahul · 2013-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“You won't have any guarantees that Bundler will resolve the dependencies correctly in production when it doesn't in your development environment.”
regret · personal · elektronaut · 2012-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in the last year with all the stuff like bundler and the new rubygems.org it got so much easier.”
endorse · production · TomK32 · 2010-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“manage Bundler dependencies and binstubs for Ruby projects so executables under development can be involed naively from PATH”
neutral · production · pxc · 2025-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm talking about version numbers in Gemfile, and I think you're talking about them in Gemfile.lock.”
neutral · production · akkartik · 2017-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“managing our middleware's dependencies with bundler directly”
neutral · production · dandandan · 2014-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In my testing, it's the startup time that's the issue, not Thor, which is because `bundle exec` has to re-start the interpreter multiple times”
neutral · personal · steveklabnik · 2014-06-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Um. I use Bundler along with rvm.”
neutral · production · irahul · 2013-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At work we install and set up libraries on development machines using bundler/rubygems, then go in and version lock everything”
neutral · production · awj · 2013-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“repacking all my gems to make bundle install faster”
neutral · production · senthilnayagam · 2012-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Every time I "bundle install" it breaks something because everything is running edge and the APIs are changing all the time.”
neutral · production · oldgregg · 2010-06-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?