Gave a shot to the new Bundler 1.4.0RC1 during the weekend and found out it now supports gem installation in parallel. To invoke you need to pass --jobs parameter with number of threads you want it to run – for me the best performance was achieved by specifying the number physical CPU cores.

I've tested on the AppFab app. In my case (CPU with 2-core i7 with HT) the speedup was 50%. I've also tried with a number greater than the number of physical cores but the performance was 15%-20% worse.

Bundler 1.3...

1. Add to the end your .bash_profile export PATH="./vendor/bundle/bin:$PATH"
2. Also add alias bi="bundle install --path vendor/bundle --binstubs=vendor/bundle/bin"
3. Then to bundle install next time just use bi

Now no more bundle exec before any rake, cap, spec or anything else :)

Go to lib folder and use bundler to generate main files for a gem:

$ bundle gem test_gem

      create  test_gem/Gemfile
      create  test_gem/Rakefile
      create  test_gem/LICENSE
      create  test_gem/README.md
      create  test_gem/.gitignore
      create  test_gem/test_gem.gemspec
      create  test_gem/lib/test_gem.rb
      create  test_gem/lib/test_gem/version.rb
Initializating git repo in /path/to/webapp/HouseTrip-Web-App/lib/test_gem

cd in to created directory

$ cd test_gem/

Bundle...