Question

When I need to add a new dependent gem in the Gemfile, then run “bundle install” it seems to take forever (sometimes 7 minutes for me). How can I make this process faster?

I did a search on the web, and it mentioned a Gemfile.lock file. That is appearing for me in my local directory. But running “bundle install” still takes forever.

I’ve been learning Ruby on Rails for the past 2 weeks (so forgive the newby question, if the answer is obvious).

Answer 1

It sounds like they have made some changes in bundler 1.1 that are going to give some speed improvements so I would start by trying that:

mike@sleepycat:~$ sudo gem install bundler --prerelease
Fetching: bundler-1.1.pre.1.gem (100%)
Successfully installed bundler-1.1.pre.1
1 gem installed