bundle-package(1) - Package your needed <code>.gem</code> files into your application

@jacqui @dandrinkard Do you bundle package on a mac and deploy to linux? See REMOVE FETCHING

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION GIT AND PATH GEMS REMOTE FETCHING bundle-package(1) bundle-package(1) NAME bundle-package - Package your needed .gem files into your application SYNOPSIS bundle package DESCRIPTION Copy all of the .gem files needed to run the application into the vendor/cache directory. In the future, when running bundle install(1) , use the gems in the cache in preference to the ones on rubygems.org . GIT AND PATH GEMS In Bundler 1.0, the bundle package command only packages .gem files, not gems specified using the :git or :path options. This will likely change in the future. REMOTE FETCHING By default, if you simply run bundle install(1) after running bundle package(1) , bundler will still connect to rubygems.org to check whether a platform-specific gem exists for any of the gems in vendor/cache . For instance, consider this Gemfile(5) : source "http://rubygems....

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