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30 May 2024
Bundler Auto-Install Just Got A Whole Lot Better
by Ngan Pham
The RubyGems Team is happy to share this post from our colleague Ngan Pham, Principle Software Engineer @ Gusto. Thank you, Ngan!
Working in a large monolith with many engineers, you never fail to get a flurry of changes everytime you pull from main.
Then you have the typical ritual of running bundle install and, if you’re on a Rails application, rails db:prepare.
Sometimes, you forget to run bundle install and get this message:
Could not find X-1.2.3 in locally installed gems
Run `bundle install` to install missing gems.
As of Bundler 2.5.10, you can now enable the auto_install config to have Bundler automatically install your bundle on demand.
Simply set it in your project (or globally) with:
bundle config auto_install true
# or
bundle config --global auto_install true
Auto-install is not a new concept. Commands like bundle (show | binstubs | outdated | exec | open | console | license | clean) already benefited from the auto_install config.
However, the recent enhancement by @technicalpickles made it work with anything that uses require "bundler/setup". This means even binstubs (which use require "bundler/setup" by default) will now just work.
It’s a small change but it results in a big quality of life improvement. Try it out!
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