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Nobody ever mentions Ruby in these lists. :sad-panda: Check out inline Bundler:

https://bundler.io/guides/bundler_in_a_single_file_ruby_scri...

Combine this with a shebang and you can get a heck of a lot of power into one file.

Does this install dependencies on a per-script basis? Can different scripts' dependencies conflict with each other? I think I saw this when I initially put together the list, but I didn't include Ruby because I wasn't sure how it worked.

I'll add Ruby if conflicts are normally impossible. (If conflicts are possible, the method is equivalent to shelling out to the language's package manager at the top of the script before the imports, which you can do in most scripting languages.)

I believe they get installed to a particular location that can be of course set in bundler’s config. I believe this is also per script, so they one script won’t interfere with another. I’ve used it before, and never had a problem

Thanks. I'll do a little research to confirm it and add Ruby if this is the case.

Conflicts aren’t an issue. Multiple versions of a library can coexist and bundler will install/activate the requested version on a per script or project basis.

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