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Hunting for Gems: How Ruby's package management system evolved
It’s time for another installment in our series on loading code in Rails. We have already discussed: - Part 1 - Loading Files In Ruby - Part 2 - Loading Files in Rails (using Ruby’s in-built mechansims and the Autoloader) But so far, we’ve not talked about gems.
Using other people’s code instead of writing your own saves a lot of time, so it’s an important part of the story. Through a clever hack[^the-clever-hack], Ruby will pass over control to RubyGems and ask it to add a folder containing this gem to the$LOAD_PATH. Solving this problem would require the final piece in our Ruby dependency management story.
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