On Jun 20, 2008, at 16:18 PM, Eric Marthinsen wrote: > I'm writing a fairly involved Ruby application. I want to stabilize > the > gems that I'm using by freezing them (I also want to simplify > deployment > of the app). Freezing gems is a pretty well understood and documented > process for a Rails application, but I haven't found anything on how > to > do this with a Ruby console app. The easiest way to do this is to use gems itself. It is smart. Gem::Specification.new 'my_gem', MyGem::VERSION do |s| s.add_dependency 'other_gem', '= 1.0' end Then simply install your ruby application as a gem.