This happens, but it's not really that common, and it's certainly not insurmountable. You can fork any gem in github, fix whatever issue it has, and point your

This happens, but it's not really that common, and it's certainly not insurmountable. You can fork any gem in github, fix whatever issue it has, and point your Gemfile at your fork on github. Bundler treats it as the same package so it doesn't break your dependency tree either above or below it. I've used this to fix an incompatibility in the middle of my dep tree before. It's annoying, but it's not exactly a big deal.