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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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Conditional gems in ruby without breaking Gemfile.lock
Do you want ruby/bundler to skip a gem install on a certain platform, but any other platform needs that gem? The obvious answer would be the following, which would result in also clobbering your Gemfile.lock if bundling on macOS: gem “openssl”, “= 3.2.0” if RUBY_PLATFORM !~ /darwin/ But bundler has its own method, install_if , to accomplish such a…
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Quiet “Don’t run bundler as root” warnings, Bundler >= 2.3.7
Silence “Don’t run Bundler as root. Bundler can ask for sudo if it is needed, and installing your bundle as root will break this application for all non-root users on this machine.” warning