Rubygems::Lock

Use Gemfile and Gemfile.lock with CLI rubygem

CLI rubygems are applications too. Make sure your users have the experience you developed, with real dependency handling, free from version mismatches.

Is this sane ???

I'm not entirely sure...

Installation

# in xxxx.gemspec, replace
....
spec.add_dependency "bundler", "~> 1.0"
spec.add_development_dependency "rake"
spec.add_development_dependency "minitest"
...

# with

spec.add_locked_dependencies

# in the Gemfile

# replace
gemspec

# with
gem "bundler", "~> 1.0"

group :development do
  gem "rake"
  gem "minitest"
  gem "rubygems-lock"    # Don't forget this! :)
end

# remove Gemfile.lock from .gitignore,
# check it in to version control
git add Gemfile.lock

# bundle like normal
bundle install

# commit everything and cut a gem
gem build xxxx.gemspec

# the gem has all the dependencies locked
# to the versions you developed and tested with
gem spec xxxx-0.0.0.gem --ruby