Bundler is pretty great because rubygems has a decent (but not perfect) "platform" system built in. You can ship binary versions of any gem for various platforms and they'll win over "compile locally" on those platforms.
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Aka gem install time. If you want runtime, the ffi gem provides that, but too often you want to use C for glue so you can use C macros etc.
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Ok that makes sense. Is there any security concern running code on install of arbitrary 3rd party gems?
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