5 engineers on Hacker News describe using RubyGems first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“It's not really suited for putting things into production, especially when people think pulling old versions (for whatever reason) is acceptable behavior.”
regret · production · awj · 2013-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in the last year with all the stuff like bundler and the new rubygems.org it got so much easier.”
endorse · production · TomK32 · 2010-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using the http://www.ruby-toolbox.com popularity score as a similar type of proxy”
neutral · personal · mikejarema · 2014-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“installing it through rubygems and managing our middleware's dependencies”
neutral · production · dandandan · 2014-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Now we use github and gems on gemcutter”
neutral · production · gommm · 2010-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?