bundle install has several other useful options too. My favorites: --local will prevent rubygems.org from being contacted, and will only use previously cached

bundle install has several other useful options too. My favorites: --local will prevent rubygems.org from being contacted, and will only use previously cached gems --standalone will package all dependencies into ./bundle, so that you can copy and run it on a server that doesn't even have Bundler [1] http://gembundler.com/v1.2/bundle_install.html http://gembundler.com/v1.2/bundle_install.html