Ruby Gems

Definitions

1. The ecosystem of packaged Ruby libraries and applications distributed as gems, along with the conventions and tooling for publishing and installing them. The phrase can refer to the packages themselves or the broader Ruby packaging culture.

   In plain English: Ruby’s package ecosystem of reusable libraries and distributed software components.

   Example: "The service depended on half a dozen Ruby Gems that hadn’t been updated since the last major Rails release."

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