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Rails: Vendor Everything Just Got Easier
Here's a common deployment fiasco: You build something. Something great. You use a number of different third party libraries installed on your system. Then, when you deploy the app to production, things break. You investigate. You realize that one of the libraries you're depending on doesn't exist on the server. You install it. Things still don't work. You realize that another one of the third party libraries is an older version. You update it. Things start to work. But now, one of the other applications hosted on that same server stops working, because some feature it was depending on in the older library is not available in the new version. Eek. Guess it's time to "vendor everything"...Related Reading
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