We use Vagrant for development at Stripe, using NFS mounts to share code from the host into the Vagrant dev box. We use bundler to manage Ruby dependencies, and configure it to install gems directly into the project directory, inside the vendor/ subdirectory. Installing gems there, instead of globally, ensures isolation, and preserves gems across re-creation of the Vagrant VM, which means you don’t need to wait for a bunch of gems to download if you blow away your VM. Recently we upgraded o...
