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The Ruby Ecosystem in 2025
A realistic assessment of Ruby tools and frameworks that stood the test of time Twenty years after Ruby on Rails burst onto the scene with David Heinemeier Hansson’s famous “Build a blog in 15 minutes” screencast, the Ruby ecosystem has matured, consolidated, and—contrary to the perennial “Ruby is dead” proclamations—quietly thrived in its particular niches.…
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gem install no implicit conversion of String into Integer
Here’s a puzzle You’re coming back to your ruby environment after a hiatus doing other programming things and doing a basic gem install produces something like the following with doing any gem install operation SSL Verify Mode in the .gemrc The ~/.gemrc file had a setting on the problem environment for ssl_verify_mode, but it turned…
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gem environment, or where are my gems being loaded from, etc.
Ever have a problem with the wrong gem loading or the gem you’re expecting not being found? You can use the gem environment command to output various information about the RubyGems environment: If you export GEM_PATH=/path:/path2… those paths will be added to the GEM You can also see the remote sources, and the gem configuration…