Understanding the Gemfile.lock file

After running the bundle install command, ‘Gemfile.lock‘ is created in the working directory. What do the directives inside that file mean? For example, let’s take the following file: PATH remote: . specs: gem_one (0.0.1) GEM remote: http://example.org/ specs: gem_two (0.0.2) gem_three (0.0.3) gem_four (0.0.4) PLATFORMS platform DEPENDENCIES gem_two gem_one! What do ‘PATH‘, ‘GEM‘, ‘PLATFORMS‘ and … Read more