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rubygems pip
211 108
3,550 9,264
1.1% 1.0%
9.9 9.8
about 17 hours ago 3 days ago
Ruby Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

rubygems

Posts with mentions or reviews of rubygems. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-11.
  • Building a Sinatra app in Ruby
    1 project | dev.to | 9 Apr 2024
    # Gemfile source 'https://rubygems.org' gem 'dotenv' gem 'json' gem 'pry' gem 'rake' gem 'sassc' gem 'sinatra' gem 'sinatra-activerecord' gem 'sinatra-contrib' gem 'sinatra-static-assets' group :development do gem 'foreman' gem 'rubocop' gem 'sqlite3', '~> 1.3', '>= 1.3.11' end group :test do gem 'rack-test' gem 'rspec', require: 'spec' end group :production do gem 'pg' end
  • How to deploy a Rails 7 app to Heroku
    1 project | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024
    mkdir myapp && cd myapp echo "source 'https://rubygems.org'" > Gemfile echo "gem 'rails', '7.1.3.2'" >> Gemfile bundle install bundle exec rails new . --force --database=postgresql -j=esbuild -c=tailwind
  • Test Driving a Rails API - Part One
    11 projects | dev.to | 11 Mar 2024
    With Ruby installed, you can now manage your RubyGems with the gem command. Install the Rails gem or update if you already have it.
  • Google ZX – A tool for writing better scripts
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2024
    source 'https://rubygems.org'
  • Building a Christmas-Themed Chatbot: My ServerlessGuru Hackathon Journey
    5 projects | dev.to | 17 Dec 2023
    # frozen_string_literal: true source 'https://rubygems.org' ruby '>= 3.2.2' gem 'aws-sdk-bedrockruntime'
  • Finding your way around Rails code
    2 projects | dev.to | 11 Dec 2023
    RubyGems Environment: - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 3.4.10 - RUBY VERSION: 3.2.2 (2023-03-30 patchlevel 53) [arm64-darwin22] - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /Users/michaeldaross/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.2.2/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0 - USER INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /Users/michaeldaross/.gem/ruby/3.2.0 - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /Users/michaeldaross/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.2.2/bin/ruby - GIT EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/git - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /Users/michaeldaross/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.2.2/bin - SPEC CACHE DIRECTORY: /Users/michaeldaross/.gem/specs - SYSTEM CONFIGURATION DIRECTORY: /Users/michaeldaross/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.2.2/etc - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS: - ruby - arm64-darwin-22 - GEM PATHS: - /Users/michaeldaross/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.2.2/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0 - /Users/michaeldaross/.gem/ruby/3.2.0 - GEM CONFIGURATION: - :update_sources => true - :verbose => true - :backtrace => true - :bulk_threshold => 1000 - "gem" => "--no-document" - REMOTE SOURCES: - https://rubygems.org/ ...
  • Can,t install MySQL2 gem
    3 projects | /r/rails | 8 Dec 2023
    Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. current directory: /usr/share/rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.5/gems/mysql2-0.5.5/ext/mysql2 /usr/share/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.7.5/bin/ruby -I /usr/share/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.7.5/lib/ruby/2.7.0 -r ./siteconf20231208-2396-1amnwp6.rb extconf.rb checking for rb_absint_size()... yes checking for rb_absint_singlebit_p()... yes checking for rb_gc_mark_movable()... yes checking for rb_wait_for_single_fd()... yes checking for rb_enc_interned_str() in ruby.h... no ----- Cannot find library dir(s) /home/julio/.rvm/usr/lib ----- *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may need configuration options. Provided configuration options: --with-opt-dir --without-opt-dir --with-opt-include --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include --with-opt-lib --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib --with-make-prog --without-make-prog --srcdir=. --curdir --ruby=/usr/share/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.7.5/bin/$(RUBY_BASE_NAME) --with-openssl-dir --with-openssl-dir --with-openssl-include --without-openssl-include=${openssl-dir}/include --with-openssl-lib --without-openssl-lib=${openssl-dir}/lib To see why this extension failed to compile, please check the mkmf.log which can be found here: /usr/share/rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.5/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.7.0/mysql2-0.5.5/mkmf.log extconf failed, exit code 1 Gem files will remain installed in /usr/share/rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.5/gems/mysql2-0.5.5 for inspection. Results logged to /usr/share/rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.5/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.7.0/mysql2-0.5.5/gem_make.out An error occurred while installing mysql2 (0.5.5), and Bundler cannot continue. Make sure that `gem install mysql2 -v '0.5.5' --source 'https://rubygems.org/'` succeeds before bundling.
  • Does anyone know what is causing this error?
    1 project | /r/rails | 6 Dec 2023
    Bundle complete! 14 Gemfile dependencies, 83 gems now installed. run bundle lock --add-platform=x86_64-linux Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/......... Resolving dependencies... Writing lockfile to C:/Users/****/Desktop/Projects/Rails/MyFirstProject/Gemfile.lock run bundle binstubs bundler rails importmap:install bin/rails aborted! Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - C:/Users/****/Desktop/Projects/Rails/MyFirstProject/Rakefile (Errno::ENOENT) :37:in `require' :37:in `require' bin/rails:4:in `' (See full trace by running task with --trace) rails turbo:install stimulus:install bin/rails aborted! Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - C:/Users/****/Desktop/Projects/Rails/MyFirstProject/Rakefile (Errno::ENOENT) :37:in `require' :37:in `require' bin/rails:4:in `' (See full trace by running task with --trace)
  • Heroku Build Failure: error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported
    2 projects | /r/rubyonrails | 5 Dec 2023
    -----> Building on the Heroku-22 stack -----> Determining which buildpack to use for this app ! Warning: Multiple default buildpacks reported the ability to handle this app. The first buildpack in the list below will be used. Detected buildpacks: Ruby,Node.js See https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/buildpacks#buildpack-detect-order -----> Ruby app detected -----> Installing bundler 2.3.25 -----> Removing BUNDLED WITH version in the Gemfile.lock -----> Compiling Ruby/Rails -----> Using Ruby version: ruby-3.1.2 -----> Installing dependencies using bundler 2.3.25 Running: BUNDLE_WITHOUT='development:test' BUNDLE_PATH=vendor/bundle BUNDLE_BIN=vendor/bundle/bin BUNDLE_DEPLOYMENT=1 bundle install -j4 Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/........ Fetching rake 13.1.0 Installing rake 13.1.0 Fetching connection_pool 2.4.1 Fetching bigdecimal 3.1.4 Fetching concurrent-ruby 1.2.2 Fetching base64 0.2.0 Installing bigdecimal 3.1.4 with native extensions Installing connection_pool 2.4.1 Installing base64 0.2.0 Using ruby2_keywords 0.0.5 Fetching minitest 5.20.0 Fetching mutex_m 0.2.0 Installing minitest 5.20.0 Installing mutex_m 0.2.0 Installing concurrent-ruby 1.2.2 Fetching erubi 1.12.0 Fetching builder 3.2.4 Installing builder 3.2.4 Installing erubi 1.12.0 Fetching racc 1.7.3 Fetching crass 1.0.6 Installing racc 1.7.3 with native extensions Fetching rack 2.2.8 Installing crass 1.0.6 Fetching nio4r 2.7.0 Installing rack 2.2.8 Installing nio4r 2.7.0 with native extensions Fetching websocket-extensions 0.1.5 Installing websocket-extensions 0.1.5 Fetching zeitwerk 2.6.12 Installing zeitwerk 2.6.12 Fetching timeout 0.4.1 Installing timeout 0.4.1 Fetching marcel 1.0.2 Installing marcel 1.0.2 Fetching mini_mime 1.1.5 Installing mini_mime 1.1.5 Fetching date 3.3.4 Installing date 3.3.4 with native extensions Fetching public_suffix 5.0.4 Installing public_suffix 5.0.4 Fetching stringio 3.1.0 Installing stringio 3.1.0 with native extensions Fetching io-console 0.6.0 Installing io-console 0.6.0 with native extensions Fetching webrick 1.8.1 Installing webrick 1.8.1 Fetching thor 1.3.0 Installing thor 1.3.0 Fetching kaminari-core 1.2.2 Installing kaminari-core 1.2.2 Fetching ffi 1.16.3 Installing ffi 1.16.3 with native extensions Fetching tilt 2.3.0 Installing tilt 2.3.0 Fetching selectize-rails 0.12.6 Installing selectize-rails 0.12.6 Fetching amazing_print 1.5.0 Installing amazing_print 1.5.0 Fetching aws-eventstream 1.3.0 Installing aws-eventstream 1.3.0 Fetching aws-partitions 1.863.0 Installing aws-partitions 1.863.0 Fetching jmespath 1.6.2 Installing jmespath 1.6.2 Fetching bcrypt 3.1.20 Installing bcrypt 3.1.20 with native extensions Fetching msgpack 1.7.2 Installing msgpack 1.7.2 with native extensions Using bundler 2.3.25 Fetching content_disposition 1.0.0 Installing content_disposition 1.0.0 Fetching orm_adapter 0.5.0 Installing orm_adapter 0.5.0 Fetching mini_magick 4.12.0 Installing mini_magick 4.12.0 Fetching pg 1.5.4 Installing pg 1.5.4 with native extensions Fetching redis 4.8.1 Installing redis 4.8.1 Fetching semantic_range 3.0.0 Fetching stripe 5.55.0 Installing semantic_range 3.0.0 Fetching turbolinks-source 5.2.0 Installing stripe 5.55.0 Installing turbolinks-source 5.2.0 Fetching drb 2.2.0 Installing drb 2.2.0 Fetching i18n 1.14.1 Installing i18n 1.14.1 Fetching tzinfo 2.0.6 Fetching rack-session 1.0.2 Installing tzinfo 2.0.6 Installing rack-session 1.0.2 Fetching rack-test 2.1.0 Fetching sprockets 4.2.1 Installing rack-test 2.1.0 Fetching warden 1.2.9 Installing sprockets 4.2.1 Installing warden 1.2.9 Fetching rack-proxy 0.7.7 Installing rack-proxy 0.7.7 Fetching websocket-driver 0.7.6 Fetching net-protocol 0.2.2 Installing net-protocol 0.2.2 Installing websocket-driver 0.7.6 with native extensions Fetching nokogiri 1.15.5 (x86_64-linux) Installing nokogiri 1.15.5 (x86_64-linux) Fetching addressable 2.8.5 Installing addressable 2.8.5 Fetching psych 5.1.1.1 Installing psych 5.1.1.1 with native extensions Fetching reline 0.4.1 Installing reline 0.4.1 Fetching rackup 1.0.0 Installing rackup 1.0.0 Fetching puma 5.6.7 Installing puma 5.6.7 with native extensions Fetching aws-sigv4 1.8.0 Installing aws-sigv4 1.8.0 Fetching sidekiq 6.5.12 Installing sidekiq 6.5.12 Fetching bootsnap 1.17.0 Installing bootsnap 1.17.0 with native extensions Fetching turbolinks 5.2.1 Installing turbolinks 5.2.1 Fetching money 6.16.0 Installing money 6.16.0 Fetching activesupport 7.1.2 Installing activesupport 7.1.2 Fetching net-imap 0.4.7 Installing net-imap 0.4.7 Fetching net-pop 0.1.2 Installing net-pop 0.1.2 Fetching net-smtp 0.4.0 Installing net-smtp 0.4.0 Fetching loofah 2.22.0 Installing loofah 2.22.0 Fetching down 5.4.1 Installing down 5.4.1 Fetching sassc 2.4.0 Installing sassc 2.4.0 with native extensions Fetching ruby-vips 2.2.0 Installing ruby-vips 2.2.0 Fetching aws-sdk-core 3.190.0 Installing aws-sdk-core 3.190.0 Fetching monetize 1.12.0 Installing monetize 1.12.0 Fetching rails-dom-testing 2.2.0 Installing rails-dom-testing 2.2.0 Fetching globalid 1.2.1 Installing globalid 1.2.1 Fetching activemodel 7.1.2 Installing activemodel 7.1.2 Fetching mail 2.8.1 Installing mail 2.8.1 Fetching rails-html-sanitizer 1.6.0 Installing rails-html-sanitizer 1.6.0 Fetching shrine 3.5.0 Installing shrine 3.5.0 Fetching rdoc 6.6.0 Installing rdoc 6.6.0 Fetching image_processing 1.12.2 Installing image_processing 1.12.2 Fetching aws-sdk-kms 1.74.0 Installing aws-sdk-kms 1.74.0 Fetching activejob 7.1.2 Installing activejob 7.1.2 Fetching activerecord 7.1.2 Installing activerecord 7.1.2 Fetching actionview 7.1.2 Installing actionview 7.1.2 Fetching irb 1.10.0 Installing irb 1.10.0 Fetching aws-sdk-s3 1.141.0 Installing aws-sdk-s3 1.141.0 Fetching kaminari-activerecord 1.2.2 Installing kaminari-activerecord 1.2.2 Fetching actionpack 7.1.2 Installing actionpack 7.1.2 Fetching kaminari-actionview 1.2.2 Installing kaminari-actionview 1.2.2 Fetching jbuilder 2.11.5 Installing jbuilder 2.11.5 Fetching actioncable 7.1.2 Installing actioncable 7.1.2 Fetching activestorage 7.1.2 Installing activestorage 7.1.2 Fetching actionmailer 7.1.2 Installing actionmailer 7.1.2 Fetching railties 7.1.2 Installing railties 7.1.2 Fetching sprockets-rails 3.4.2 Installing sprockets-rails 3.4.2 Fetching kaminari 1.2.2 Installing kaminari 1.2.2 Fetching actionmailbox 7.1.2 Installing actionmailbox 7.1.2 Fetching actiontext 7.1.2 Fetching momentjs-rails 2.29.4.1 Installing actiontext 7.1.2 Installing momentjs-rails 2.29.4.1 Fetching jquery-rails 4.6.0 Installing jquery-rails 4.6.0 Fetching responders 3.1.1 Fetching money-rails 1.15.0 Installing responders 3.1.1 Fetching stimulus-rails 1.3.0 Installing money-rails 1.15.0 Installing stimulus-rails 1.3.0 Fetching webpacker 5.4.4 Fetching tailwindcss-rails 2.0.32 (x86_64-linux) Installing webpacker 5.4.4 Fetching rails 7.1.2 Installing rails 7.1.2 Fetching datetime_picker_rails 0.0.7 Installing datetime_picker_rails 0.0.7 Fetching devise 4.9.3 Installing devise 4.9.3 Installing tailwindcss-rails 2.0.32 (x86_64-linux) Fetching sassc-rails 2.1.2 Installing sassc-rails 2.1.2 Fetching administrate 0.16.0 Installing administrate 0.16.0 Fetching administrate-field-enum 0.0.9 Installing administrate-field-enum 0.0.9 Bundle complete! 40 Gemfile dependencies, 114 gems now installed. Gems in the groups 'development' and 'test' were not installed. Bundled gems are installed into `./vendor/bundle` Post-install message from devise:
  • Ruby Gems Download Trends: An Analysis from 2013 to 2023
    2 projects | dev.to | 15 Nov 2023
    bestgems.org is not rubygems.org and I could not yet find how they are taking their data.

pip

Posts with mentions or reviews of pip. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-09.
  • How to Create Virtual Environments in Python
    4 projects | dev.to | 9 Feb 2024
    Whenever you are working on a Python project that has external dependencies installed with pip, it is strongly recommended to first create a virtual environment.
  • Boring Python: dependency management (2022)
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Feb 2024
    Unfortunately that feature is easy to break: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/9644
  • pip VS instld - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 9 Dec 2023
  • sudo pip install should be illegal
    1 project | /r/linuxmemes | 8 Dec 2023
    I think I did my part https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6409
  • Can't seem to install Python YAML support
    1 project | /r/Ubuntu | 29 Aug 2023
    $ sudo pip install y$ sudo pip install yaml WARNING: pip is being invoked by an old script wrapper. This will fail in a future version of pip. Please see https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5599 for advice on fixing the underlying issue. To avoid this problem you can invoke Python with '-m pip' instead of running pip directly. ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement yaml (from versions: none) ERROR: No matching distribution found for yaml
  • Bun v0.6.0 – Bun's new JavaScript bundler and minifier
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 May 2023
    What are you implying will happen?

    Using the build-in tools, you can save the exact versions of dependencies (i.e. a lock file) using "pip freeze >dependencies.txt". This should give you the exact same set of packages in two years' time.

    If you want to be even more sure, you can also store hashes in the lock file. This has to be generated by a separate tools at the moment [1][2] but can be consumed by the built-in tools [3], so "pip install -r requirements.txt" is still all you need in two years' time.

    [1] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/4732

    [2] https://pip-tools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#using-hashes

    [3] https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/topics/secure-installs/#hash-c...

  • My Goldilocks Python Setup: pyenv, pipx, and pip-tools
    4 projects | /r/Python | 22 Apr 2023
    Here’s the issue, https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/11664. I think the idea would be to have some file/json description of environment that could be passed to pip to allow it to fully cross compile. They are open to supporting it just needs contributor to be found to implement it and go through review/discussion.
  • Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google They Are Not Willing to Fix
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Apr 2023
    To be fair the only alternative is fixing Python, and even then you still would have to wait a good 5 years at least for all the old Python versions to dwindle.

    It doesn't look like the fixing effort is progressing very quickly: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8606

    To their credit, at least they didn't close it "works as intended" which I imagine a lot of projects would.

  • Pip 23.1 Released - Massive improvement to backtracking
    5 projects | /r/Python | 15 Apr 2023
    Another good benchmark to trying to resolve apache-airflow[all]==1.10.13 using the state of PyPi on 2020-12-02, I give instructions here on how to reproduce that workflow: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/11836. Including a benchmark how how many extra packages your resolver should visit.
  • will upgrading pip break things?
    2 projects | /r/learnpython | 11 Apr 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rubygems and pip you can also consider the following projects:

dotenv - A Ruby gem to load environment variables from `.env`.

mamba - The Fast Cross-Platform Package Manager

nvm - Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions

Poetry - Python packaging and dependency management made easy

Nokogiri - Nokogiri (ι‹Έ) makes it easy and painless to work with XML and HTML from Ruby.

PDM - A modern Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP standards

verdaccio - πŸ“¦πŸ” A lightweight Node.js private proxy registry

conda - A system-level, binary package and environment manager running on all major operating systems and platforms.

spaCy - πŸ’« Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python

pip-tools - A set of tools to keep your pinned Python dependencies fresh.

PrismJS - Lightweight, robust, elegant syntax highlighting.

wheel - Adoption analysis of Python Wheels: https://pythonwheels.com/