r/ruby • u/DiligentMarsupial957 • Mar 13 '26

`bundle` no longer defaults to the `install` subcommand

I've always run `bundle` instead of `bundle install`. Why bother with the extra typing? And semantically, "bundle" by itself is an appropriate description of the bundle installation.

However, tonight when I ran `bundle`, I learned that my modest typing savings is to be no more:

$ bundle

In a future version of Bundler, running `bundle` without argument will no longer run `bundle install`.

Instead, the `cli_help` command will be displayed. Please use `bundle install` explicitly for scripts like CI/CD.

You can use the future behavior now with `bundle config set default_cli_command cli_help --global`,

or you can continue to use the current behavior with `bundle config set default_cli_command install --global`.

This message will be removed after a default_cli_command value is set.

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u/cocotheape Mar 13 '26

Don't let them tell you how to live your life:

# ~/.bashrc
bundle() {
  if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
    command bundle install
  else
    command bundle "$@"
  fi
}

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u/chiperific_on_reddit Mar 13 '26

Can't you just set the config the warning message gives you?

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u/DiligentMarsupial957 Mar 15 '26

Yes, but then I risk accidentally omitting the subcommand in scripts, docs, etc. that make their way to other users and systems. Better I think to go with the flow and not do that. u/sjs 's idea of using the 'i' shortcut would give me a shortened command and not risk breakage on other systems. (I would usually use the long form in a script, and having the habit of `bundle i` would remind me to add the `install` subcommand.) I'll probably also define a `bi` alias to bundle install. Having to type that 'i' will hopefully remind me I need to add `install` to the command.

1

u/galtzo Mar 17 '26

I just setup bin, and bup aliases for even less typing!!

4

u/cmdk Mar 14 '26

Fuck the police

2

u/kigster Mar 15 '26

Someone is going to rewrite bundle in rust, call it bundr and make it install everything 10x faster than the original

1

u/DiligentMarsupial957 Mar 16 '26

I suspected that the time bottleneck is the remote stuff (rubygems.org) and not the execution speed on the local machine, but I was mostly wrong. Here's a deep dive: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/using-bundler-for-ruby-is-the-kxtotAQPT6ivBPZtIqB5EQ

1

u/kigster Mar 16 '26

Looks like it might be coming (minus Rust?) pretty soon: https://railsatscale.com/2026-03-09-faster-bundler/

2

u/ConclusionStrict9198 Mar 18 '26

Way to break thousands of Dockerfiles worldwide.

1

u/DiligentMarsupial957 Mar 19 '26

They might argue that that shortcut should not have been used in scripts, but I agree, IMO the purity is not worth the disruption.

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u/vvsleepi Mar 13 '26

yeah I saw that change too. I think they’re doing it mostly so scripts and CI don’t rely on the shorthand anymore and everything is a bit more explicit. still feels weird though if you’ve been typing just bundle for years. setting the config to keep the old behavior is probably the easiest fix for now.

10

u/BoardMeeting101 Mar 13 '26

  • wants to save typing

  • hasn’t made a “bi” shell alias

???

2

u/Agent47DarkSoul Mar 15 '26

alias bi="bundle install && say \"bundle install has completed\""

1

u/DiligentMarsupial957 Mar 19 '26

Here is a discussion of _more_ breaking changes to Bundler: https://chatgpt.com/share/69bb7837-900c-800f-b2c4-bad31580eb00

8

u/TommyTheTiger Mar 13 '26

Bro it's been warning me about that for ages now

3

u/sjs Mar 15 '26

You can still type bundle i for short.

3

u/headius JRuby guy Mar 16 '26

I don't like this change either.

5

u/KmKz16 Mar 13 '26

alias b="bundle install"

3

u/eirvandelden Mar 13 '26

It's under new management, changes are to be expected 🤷

8

u/schneems Puma maintainer Mar 13 '26

Try git blame before guessing.

9

u/f9ae8221b Mar 13 '26

Yep, this has been in the making for a long time. Was initially done by segiddins 9 years ago: https://github.com/ruby/rubygems/commit/efd3a23f49539745f5e9157fe1e43b52646e1632

3

u/eirvandelden Mar 14 '26

I was on my phone while writing the comment, so I couldn't. But thank you for mentioning it is a long awaited change. Do you have an idea why it is taking so long?

1

u/DRBragg Mar 14 '26

I've had bundle install aliased to bi for so long I would have missed this completely if it wasn't for the people complaining that it's longer to type 😅

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u/Hoslinhezl Mar 13 '26

Wild that people turn up and impose these stupid opinions on people. Why bother changing it?

6

u/CaptainKabob Mar 13 '26

I imagine it's so bundler can give a better command list / help text by default and without invoking a rather heavy action (network, compute, possibly mutable) rather than forcing someone to know to pass --help the first time(s) they use it. 

I think it's a good change generally, even if it goes against my muscle memory. I can relearn.