If you want to do this in ruby you can just specify a version manually.  If you don&#x27;t, you still get versions frozen by default with Gemfile.lock.  It doesn&#x27;t pull in anything automatically—by default you get no updates, you can choose to update a single dependency, or the whole thing if you want to verify it works on the latest (useful for libraries for instance).  I&#x27;m not sure I see the downside.<p>FWIW I have been doing ruby for over a decade now, and I hold up Bundler as one of the great success stories of open source, and it is one of the reasons I hold Yehuda Katz in high regard, in that he was able to solve a really big problem in the community and hammer it into shape aggressively over a period of two years with a lot of doubters and naysayers (even Rubygems core was against Bundler for a long time), until it finally got so solid for so many use cases (libraries vs apps, private vs public, development vs deployment, etc, etc) where it solved nearly everyone&#x27;s problems in such a solid way that everyone adopted it.