Is Gems from Ruby or On Rails?

Question

Is Gems from Ruby or On Rails?

Navigation

#1 by (1 votes)

0

I'm starting in Ruby and On Rails. I was a bit confused about "gem", is it part of Ruby or Rails?

Example command below.

gem install nome gema

ruby-on-rails ruby gem

asked by anonymous 12.05.2017 / 15:04

1 answer

Print Items Web Page Date Comparison (status to expire)

score 1 · Accepted Answer

Gem are packaged Ruby codes to be distributed and reused by other projects, apps, and so on ... Just as are JAR packages in Java or as Pecl PHP .

RubyGems is the manager of these packages where you can search for the gem you need to be able to download directly into your project with the bundle and gemfile.

So, gems are from Ruby (the programming language), while Rails is the Web Framework created with Ruby (and by the way, it's also a gem, or Ruby metagram).