You're not papering over anything, rspec is slow because it _has to_ initialize a whole rails stack if you want speed make it happen in the background - you don

You're not papering over anything, rspec is slow because it _has to_ initialize a whole rails stack if you want speed make it happen in the background - you don't stare at compiler output while compiling a large program do you? Again bundler isn't slow due to bundler being slow, it's slow due to IO.