[ale] Fedora grousing

[Derek Atkins]

JD <jdp at algoloma.com> writes:

> On 10/23/2013 11:48 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Try to use Ruby on Rails and not use bleeding-edge!  Whenever you create
>> a new app it wants to pull down all the most current gems possible.
>
> Bundle solves that. Just fix the Gemfile with specific versions or only allow
> updates to the 3rd level. Done.
>
> Use rvm or rbenv to keep ruby app dependencies self-contained. NEVER use the OS
> ruby, gem, rails - NEVER.

Unfortunately this does not always work well.  When you create a new
rails app ("rails new", IIRC -- it's been over a year) -- it tries to do
a "bundle install" which will pull down new gems... which is really hard
to back out.

-derek

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