Right - those are the goals and they are crucial ones. I was thinking "best practices" in terms of, well, practice. The implementation of things to achieve thos

Right - those are the goals and they are crucial ones. I was thinking "best practices" in terms of, well, practice. The implementation of things to achieve those goals. The most obvious thing one could do in Ruby land is to vendor one's gem dependencies with bundler, but I'm not sure how that works in conjunction with a typical git-based workflow.