Why Do People Hate Bundler? 39% People Do (94 opinions)

I never really had any issues with gem
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I never really had any issues with gem dependencies, until bundler came along. I can see it's use but it's half baked at present, the inability to set modes such ... read all

by Tom S on 01 Feb - reply - Helpful? YES NO Thank You! - Flag
Madness and despair
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It is almost unthinkable to have a self-runnable tarball of your Ruby project, unless you use JRuby with bundler-maven-plugin: https://github.com/torquebox/jruby-maven-plugins - ZOMG! How can a dependency manager require itself from ... read all

by Nando S on 21 Dec - reply - Helpful? YES NO Thank You! - Flag
Horrible. Just horrible. Dont even think of trying
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Horrible. Just horrible. Dont even think of trying to use it with passenger and gems from git repos without major headaches and tweaking your environment. I lost at least 5 ... read all

by Steven G on 21 Sep - reply - Helpful? YES NO Thank You! - Flag
it fails randomly in production for no reason,
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it fails randomly in production for no reason, when no changes have been made - suddenly it can't see half my gems and won't let unicorn restart read all

by Kevin W on 15 Aug - reply - Helpful? YES NO Thank You! - Flag
It may fail utterly at what it's supposed to do,
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It may fail utterly at what it's supposed to do, but at least it's slow as hell while doing so. read all

by Noah H on 27 Dec - reply - Helpful? YES NO Thank You! - Flag
Bundler looks like a good idea to a real problem,
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Bundler looks like a good idea to a real problem, just like nuclear bomb or death penalty. And is exactly the same kind of pain / disaster read all

by Frédéric d on 10 Oct - reply - Helpful? YES NO Thank You! - Flag
Firstly, it's a gem manager built on top of a
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Firstly, it's a gem manager built on top of a gem manager. That duplication is just annoying. Secondly, it doesn't work behind proxies, meaning at work I have to install ... read all

by jordanhollinger on 22 Sep - reply - Helpful? YES NO Thank You! - Flag
We've spent over 15 hours trying to figure out:
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We've spent over 15 hours trying to figure out: a.) Where the gems go b.) How to update specific versions without updating others c.) How to get various scripts (rake ... read all

by Guest-wfx13 on 27 Apr - reply - Helpful? YES NO Thank You! - Flag
Oh my god, bundler sucks so much. I have wasted
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Oh my god, bundler sucks so much. I have wasted countless hours trying to do what would ordinarily be a few require lines. Please, get this awful software out of ... read all

by Tim-8edbc6 on 18 Feb - reply - Helpful? YES NO Thank You! - Flag