In some circumstances, I'd agree, but we were working on both an engine, and a 
couple of sites that used the engine - this was the simplest workflow we could 
come up with. It seems excessive to commit changes, push to github, then use 
bundler to pull those same changes down to a different location on your machine 
as part of your day to day workflow. 

Once the bulk of the work was done and the engine was reasonably complete 
though, I think the approach you're suggesting would have been fine. My 
contract ended before we got to that stage though, so I don't know how it ended 
up! :)

Cheers,

W.

On 13/09/2011, at 9:52 AM, Pat Allan wrote:

> Environment variables in a Gemfile feel like a code smell to me - if it's a 
> gem you're all working on, then I'd just push all my changes to the gem into 
> a certain branch on Github.
> 
> Of course, using :path while working on it is helpful - I'd just change the 
> Gemfile but not check it in while working on it. But yeah, that's not ideal 
> either.
> 
> -- 
> Pat
> 
> On 13/09/2011, at 9:20 AM, Warren Seen wrote:
> 
>> Yes, that is true, there is an extra step involved in re-running bundle 
>> whenever Gemfile.lock gets updated. Not a huge deal in practice mind you, 
>> since you'll know pretty quickly if you've forgotten that step. :)
>> 
>> On 13/09/2011, at 9:15 AM, Simon Russell wrote:
>> 
>>> The only problem there is that your Gemfile.lock will be changing
>>> depending on who's making it, but that can be managed.
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 08:53, Warren Seen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> +1 for this approach, have used it in the past too. Setting an env var is a
>>>> dead simple approach and doesn't force your whole team into the same 
>>>> working
>>>> directory setup.
>>>> On 13/09/2011, at 8:49 AM, Fred Wu wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> We used something like this:
>>>> 
>>>> https://github.com/stonean/slim/blob/master/Gemfile
>>>> 
>>>> 
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