In the Ruby world, a common heuristic for problems is: 1) Can the language do this for me? 2) If not, is there a gem that does it? 3) If not, can I make one?

In the Ruby world, a common heuristic for problems is: 1) Can the language do this for me? 2) If not, is there a gem that does it? 3) If not, can I make one? The tools to make it easy to get and share gems and manage dependencies are a huge boost for all Rubyists. Here's hoping that Python devs, who already have a very nice language to work with, can unite around an equally set of package tools.