Question

I’m a ruby newbie. I want to know about gem dependencies in general, but my example is rspec-rails. I run gem dependency rspec-rails -r I get a list of dependencies. I think, ok this is pretty cool. I look at the first dependency in the list for rspec-rails, it’s ZenTest. Next, I wonder if ZenTest has any unlisted dependencies. I would hope it doesn’t. I go gem dependency ZenTest -r. It lists three unique dependencies. Wow this sucks. what good is this command if it’s not recursive. So my question is, how do people avoid this hell?

Answer 1

We use Bundler. It handles recursive gem dependencies quite nicely.