Hello :) I lost my last 2 weeks trying to unify model code of 2 existing rails apps in an engine. The apps share the database, so it made sense to unify the model code and some libs and common dependencies. Anyway, here comes: https://github.com/bundler/bundler-features/issues/65#issuecomment-120247185
Ι'm starting to get the feeling that bundler source code has gone a bit amok, basically there's a long line of closed or "low priority" issues that hold back the "split complex rails app into gems/engines" mantra that the Rails team has been pushing a couple years now. For example: 1. https://github.com/bundler/bundler-features/issues/65 - this issue prevents keeping gem versions in sync among apps using a common engine 2. https://github.com/bundler/bundler/issues/3571 - :path is not supported with "package" - this means that any deployment mechanism depending on bundle package can't work with local gems 3. https://github.com/bundler/bundler/issues/2016 - workaround for last issue is to use git push on the engine and bundle update on the rails apps using it, which is irritating but OK - however when you go this route then every time you want to push a 1-liner code change bundler will try to update ALL of rails dependencies because an engine gem depends on rails. I tried removing rails from the engine gemspec, but it was no use, all of rails dependencies still got pulled Unfortunately @indirect has been very defensive about all of these issues, according to him: 1. using :git is a hack, you should publish private engines to rubygems.com 2. using :path means "you handle packaging" 3. not updating rails engine dependencies when you want to patch a piece of code from the engine is simply hard and not going to happen Unfortunately, one gets a feeling that this defensiveness comes from the possible fact that bundler has become to unwieldy to follow Rails development goals and emerging deployment standards, I get this feeling because in this issue @indirect said that 3000$ isn't enough money for the trouble of developing a feature that should be a priority for the rails community anyway - the ability to handle large projects - so I'm guessing Rails has come to the end of the line where Bundler is concerned and that the rift will continue to grow. Also, I get a bad feeling from the fact that this issue is the only one to which so far I have seen @indirect help someone circumvent a Bundler design problem, and this was only after he confirmed that @johnnyshields would pay 500$ for a hackish solution. In fact he says it clearly: https://github.com/bundler/bundler-features/issues/65#issuecomment-61932167 ```(To be super clear to anyone reading this ticket later: the above is a clever but dirty hack, it could break in future versions of Bundler, and the Bundler team only provides help with things like this if you provide monetary compensation.)``` All of this leaves a very bad taste in my mouth because I've personally lost at least 2 weeks of my life handling these issues, and some of these discussions read as an Oracle support worker trying to explain to his clients that what they're seeing is an intended feature and not a serious design issue that needs addressing, and any help will cost ya 500$ Not what I've come to expect from OS community.... Anyway, my 2 cents -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
