What happens when modifying Gemfile.lock directly?

Question

Since the second time of bundle install execution, dependencies are loaded from Gemfile.lock as long as Gemfile isn\'t changed.

But I wonder how detecti

Answer 1

If you edit your Gemfile.lock then Rails app would depend on another versions of gems... The integrity of your gem-versioning system would be broken in this case. It's a very-very bad idea to edit Gemfile.lock file directly.

Please, be a good guy and make deals with Gemfile only