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Ruby gems provide enormous amount of functionality. You can do almost anything you want with Ruby, and even when there isn't a library to do exactly what you wa
by swombat 16y ago
Ruby gems provide enormous amount of functionality. You can do almost anything you want with Ruby, and even when there isn't a library to do exactly what you want, there are enough supporting libraries for you to quickly write the library you need.
- hoggle 16y agoI concur writing new gems is a good idea as CPAN is often the only reason I have to return to perl for some quick tasks. As CPAN is the grandfather of all package management systems and probably of (inet) shared libraries too it is perfectly clear why rubygems lacks the amount of available solutions to certain problem spaces. Doesn't mean we cannot get there some day :) So I'd say I. let's build more & sometimes better gems and II. use wrappers for C libs where money/time constraints are too significant to DIY (e.g. https://github.com/ffi/ffi/wiki/Basic-Usage https://github.com/ffi/ffi/wiki/Basic-Usage ) Bottom line: try to share and contribute whenever possible. Love your language diversity :)