Re: plugin dependencies

Eric Anderson
Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:06:37 -0000

Josh Susser wrote:
> You can also freeze gems into the vendor directory. Now what''s the
> downside compared to plugins in vendor?

It seems to me the versioning feature of gems solves that. Just require
the gem with a specific version requested. You are now frozen on that
version. Updates to the package don''t affect you and you can move up to
new versions just by specifying what version you want.

Eric