Multiple Gemfiles revisited

[Tim Uckun]

Similar questions like this come up on occasion but I haven't been able to dig up an answer to this question.

Here is what I want to do.

pid = fork do

    #some equivalent of bundle exec without using system calls

end

So the parent app has a Gemfile and is invoked with Bundle exec. The child apps have their own gemfiles but they also use some gems from the parent app so I don't want a subshell.

How can do do this?

[Andre Arko]

There isn't any way to do that right now. Every approach that I've seen has the child include the parent Gemfile via something like `eval(File.read("../Gemfile"))`, and then the child is run using `Bundler.with_clean_env { system("bundle exec whatever") }.

[Tim Uckun]

There isn't any way to do that right now. Every approach that I've seen has the child include the parent Gemfile via something like `eval(File.read("../Gemfile"))`, and then the child is run using `Bundler.with_clean_env { system("bundle exec whatever") }.

That's really disappointing. I have tried various things I have seen on this mailing list and stackoverflow and so far nothing has worked.  Seems like it would be a handy feature to have.