Rubygems made easy with bundler

Tue, 17 Mar 2015 20:03:43 +0000

One thing with Ruby I don’t quite like (and many with me) are the Ruby gems. The one thing thats great with gems is that it’s almost as with CPAN, if you have a problem - there’s a gem for that! But I don’t like the idea of installing libraries system-wide. If installed with sudo it’s a security risk. And my belief is that libraries are supposed to be used by demand when an application needs them. For example Java + maven and Node.js and NPM is a good example of those getting this right. Let’s say you want to share a ruby project, the problem is that person must have the same set of gems installed to be able to run your program, and maybe he’s installing a newer version of that gem that you was testing on. Not good! Fortunately we have Bundler to help us keep track of gems and it’s dependencies that solves this problem.

Ruby Gems Bundler on Roger Welin

Rubygems made easy with bundler