Quick Recap
Who knew that gem management could be such a hot topic? With this new option at your disposal, you should feel ready for anything.
Let’s take a look back at what we covered in this chapter:
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We discussed the downsides to our previous approach to managing gems: any gem changes required all gems to be reinstalled from scratch.
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We explored a way to speed up gem changes that involved creating a volume for caching our gems. By mounting the volume into our container (and setting BUNDLE_PATH), we could manage our gems manually and benefit from faster builds.
Hopefully, you’re also starting to appreciate the meta point here: how problems with our Docker setup can be identified, thought through, and eventually solved in creative ways. The more ...
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