Author: Gautam Rege

Rubyist, Entrepreneur and co-founder of Josh-Software - one of the leading Ruby development shops in India.

Learn About The Essence Of Go Interfaces & Quacking

by Gautam Rege, posted in Go

When we think of interfaces, as traditional object-oriented programmers, the words 'abstract' or 'implements' come to mind and the example of  the Shape Interface with the Rectangle and Triangle classes materialises before us; or the Animal interface with a Dog and Cat class mulling around. Go thinks differently and hence I take a different (and probably … Continue reading Learn About The Essence Of Go Interfaces & Quacking

Part 3: Ruby Through Rails —Bundler Configuration & Settings

by Gautam Rege, posted in General

Read details about Bundler configurations, settings and paths. Learn about various Ruby constructs through bundler code.

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Note: I am currently using ruby-2.1.0 with rvm-1.25.13 and for bundler code, i have used relative path to bundler. On my system, Bundler absolute path is $HOME/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0@global/gems/bundler-1.5.0. You can have different path based on your preferences.

In my previous post, we have learned  how bundler gets started and how it executes various commands (‘install’, ‘exec’) with the help ‘thor’ gem ‘start’ function. We have seen the code below inside the install function of ‘bundler/cli’.

Bundler.definition is defined inside the ‘lib/bundler.rb’ with context as self (i.e. Bundler itself) and it initializes ‘Bundler::Definition’ that can is inside ‘lib/bundler/definition.rb’. I have pasted the code of ‘Bundler.definition’ below.

Bundler.definition (unlock variable)

The variable unlock has one of the three values: nil , true and a hash containing the gem names and gem sources.
While executing command `bundle install`, unlock is not passed and has a value nil but while updating all gems with…

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