<div dir="ltr">+1 to what Kerry said. If you deploy the same commit of your website tomorrow, you don't want it bringing in different, potentially breaking, versions of gems.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b>Garry Shutler</b><div><div><a href="http://twitter.com/gshutler" target="_blank">@gshutler</a></div><a href="http://gshutler.com/" target="_blank">gshutler.com</a></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 May 2017 at 11:12, Kerry Buckley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kerryjbuckley@gmail.com" target="_blank">kerryjbuckley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The advice I've always followed is that if you're building an application you check it in (so you can guarantee that everyone's developing/testing/running against the same set of dependencies), but if you're building a library you don't, as you don't get to control what versions users of your library are running (other than through the dependency specifications in your gemspec).<div><br></div><div>Kerry</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Asfand Qazi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ayqazi@gmail.com" target="_blank">ayqazi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I have a question regarding Bundler, developing gems, and Gemfile.lock . It is a question I thought I had the answer to, but apparently not.</div><div><br></div><div>I USED to believe that you do not check in Gemfile.lock, so as to allow situations during development to occur where your gem is used with a version of a dependency that you did not expect, therefore allowing possibly breaking interface changes to dependencies to be made apparent. This is what Mr. Katz says here, in 2010: <a href="http://yehudakatz.com/2010/12/16/clarifying-the-roles-of-the-gemspec-and-gemfile/" target="_blank">http://yehudakatz.com/2010/12/<wbr>16/clarifying-the-roles-of-the<wbr>-gemspec-and-gemfile/</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>However, checking the latest bundler docs, here we read something different: <a href="http://bundler.io/v1.14/guides/creating_gem.html" target="_blank">http://bundler.io/v<wbr>1.14/guides/creating_gem.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>"By running bundle install, Bundler will generate the extremely important Gemfile.lock file. This file is responsible for ensuring that every system this library is developed on has the exact same gems so it should always be checked into version control. For more information on this file read “THE GEMFILE.LOCK” section of the bundle install manpage."</div><div><br></div><div>Que?</div><div><br></div><div>What do y'all think? Follow the old advice, or the new advice?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br class="m_-238611294216608294m_296630333355027103gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">Regards,<br> Asfand Qazi<br> The DevOps Doctors<br><br> E: <a href="mailto:asfand@thedevopsdoctors.com" target="_blank">asfand@thedevopsdoctors.com</a><br> W: <a href="https://www.thedevopsdoctors.com/" target="_blank">https://www.thedevopsdoctor<wbr>s.com/</a><br>
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