When you write a gemspec file, what is the practical difference, if any, between the summary and description fields?
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When you write a gemspec file, what is the practical difference, if any, between the summary and description fields?
They are used in different places.
summaryis seen you dogem list -d, whiledescriptionis seen on http://rubygems.org. Description “should be more detailed than summary” (http://guides.rubygems.org/specification-reference/), but in reality you seein
.gemspecs a lot.