Bundler

If I were to explain bundler to pythonista (like myself) I would say

Bundler in Ruby land is like poetry in python land, except it does not create sandbox environment

To explain it a little more. It tracks dependencies in a Gemfile (and Gemfile.lock) which then goes in your repo. Other engineers sharing your code would then run bundle install, and they get exact same Gems (including versions) on their machines.

In order to add entries to the Gemfile one does bundle add, which updates the Gemfile and installs it locally

This is somewhat like poetry add updating pyproject.toml and poetry.lock Gemfile is like requirements.txt which one updates manually.

(Just like poetry) one needs to create base/empty Gemfile via bundle init As I found out, one can’t directly bundle add (Although it might be a good enhancement to create Gemfile if one is not found 🤔)

Also, I think the documentation should mention bundle add much earlier.

If I had not used poetry I could not have guessed about it.

Ref: Bundler documentation