Before you start you will need to install ruby on rails on your machine.
Ruby create gemfile.
The general layout of a rails application.
Many jekyll plugins are also gems including jekyll feed jekyll seo tag and jekyll archives.
For instance in a rails application place the gemfile in the same directory as the rakefile.
Place the gemfile in the root of the directory containing the associated code.
Gemfile a format for describing gem dependencies for ruby programs.
Bundler is also an easy way to create new gems.
Create a new gem with a readme gemspec rakefile directory structure and all the basic boilerplate you need to describe test and publish a gem.
Your gemfile should always be in the root of your project directory this is where bundler expects it to be and it is the standard place for any.
The basic principles of mvc model view controller and restful design.
You ve learned about rubygems the package system for ruby.
Interacting with apis such as github.
This ensures that other developers on your ruby application run the same third party code on every machine.
Gemfiles require at least one gem source in the form of the url for a rubygems server.
Once the installation is finished run bundle install this will create gemfile lock in your repository.
A gemfile describes the gem dependencies required to execute associated ruby code.
How to quickly generate the starting pieces of a rails.
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For a simple jekyll site it might look.
That one file is in charge of setting up your gem s code and api.
You ve also learned how a gem is structured what is a gemfile bundler the difference between the gemfile the gemfile lock.
A gemfile is evaluated as ruby code in a context.
Every jekyll site has a gemfile in the main folder.
I hope you found this useful.
A gem is a collection of ruby code that we can extract into a collection which we can call later.
How to install rails create a new rails application and connect your application to a database.
A gemfile is a file we create which is used for describing gem dependencies for ruby programs.
Just like you might create a standard rails project using rails new you can create a standard gem project with bundle gem.
Code for your package is placed within the lib directory.
It just makes sure that you can see some output from the gem.
Jekyll is a gem.
A gemfile is a list of gems used by your site.
The convention is to have one ruby file with the same name as your gem since that gets loaded when require hola is run.
