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Whenever developing gems, I don’t see any reasons why Gemfile is not directly inspected for dependencies.
Indeed, why use a .gemspec file in order to list them ? Is there a real benefit ?
Well that’s because the
Gemfileisn’t a file from Rubygems, but a file from Bundler. So the Rubygem developers would have to extend their used files in order to support Gemfile. Since there already is the.gemspecfile, there is no valid reason why they should. (there are enough gems which do well without aGemfile)In fact, it is recommended to use this as the only contents of the
Gemfileof gems:It will instruct bundler to use the
.gemspecfile as the authorative source of gems.