Gem in a Box vs Bundler

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Gem in a Box		Bundler
	Project
-	Mentions	4
1,478	Stars	4,822
0.4%	Growth	-
3.7	Activity	7.6
3 days ago	Latest Commit	about 4 years ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Gem in a Box

Posts with mentions or reviews of Gem in a Box. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Gem in a Box yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Bundler

Posts with mentions or reviews of Bundler. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-22.

current state of bundle install vs gem install -g
2 projects | /r/ruby | 22 Mar 2023

bundle install uses the bundle binary (technically a ruby script). The command runs the Bundler::Installer.run module. There are a lot more steps, particularly around dependencies. It ultimately calls Bundler::Installer::GemInstaller.
My tone doesn’t make me wrong, or how I convinced the Ruby project to fix an inconsistency
2 projects | /r/programming | 23 Aug 2022

sudo is totally unacceptable on my system
RubyGems has the most legal problems. Explanation?
1 project | /r/ruby | 16 Jul 2021

On the license in 2011: Bundler, which most people use to generate gem scaffolding, added the MIT license as default in 2011. I bet you'll see a change around that time where older gems are more likely to have a different license (Apache 2.0 maybe?) and newer gems are more often MIT. I'd also guess older gems are more likely to be indirect dependencies since they're probably (?) more likely to implement lower level pieces which were since wrapped up, so this could explain that phenomenon too.
Caching All Native Ruby Gem Platforms
4 projects | dev.to | 10 Mar 2021

If you are using Bundler version 1.x, you may also need to set the specific_platform configuration setting.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Gem in a Box and Bundler you can also consider the following projects:

gemstash - A RubyGems.org cache and private gem server

RubyGems - The Ruby community's gem hosting service.

gemdiff - Find source repositories for ruby gems. Open, compare, and update outdated gem versions

dsu - dsu is little gem that helps manage your Agile DSU (Daily Stand Up) participation. How? by providing a simple command line interface (CLI) which allows you to create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) noteworthy activities that you performed during your day. During your DSU, you can then easily recall and share these these activities with your team.

rubygems - Library packaging and distribution for Ruby.

sport.db - sport.db - open sports database (e.g. football.db, formula1.db etc.) command line tool and libraries

Nokogiri - Nokogiri (鋸) makes it easy and painless to work with XML and HTML from Ruby.

cocos - cocos (code commons) - auto-include quick-starter prelude & prolog

passwordless - 🗝 Authentication for your Rails app without the icky-ness of passwords