I published a script yesterday for creating a “bundle file” of all binaries (executables) on your system that rely on Rubygems to install. These aren’t covered by Homebrew’s bundle command and I wanted easy system restore via my dotfiles setup. But… because it deals specifically with gems, I figured why not make it a gem…
I’ve always liked Homebrew’s bundle command. You can save a snapshot of everything you’ve installed with Homebrew, and then reinstall the snapshot on a new system. I also like Ruby’s Bundler, which lets you save all of the gems needed by an application and then install them easily with bundle install. However, I don’t like…