Restart RubyGems & Bundler Merge Proposal
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Since Jan 6, 2026.
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Description
The maintainers of RubyGems and Bundler have long considered merging the projects. In 2021, we folded the Bundler project into the RubyGems repository, and with the new 4.0 major release, both projects now have synchronised release versions.
I want to begin developing the proposal to carve out the path to merge Bundler and RubyGems into a single project, and what the end result would ultimately look like.
We want to do this to unify Ruby's package management into a single, coherent tool and deliver the consistent experience developers expect. This would bring Ruby in line with how other languages handle dependencies.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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