What’s the first thing you look at when you see the source code of a Rails project? For me, it’s the Gemfile. Think about it…there’s very few other files that contain so much information. It describes the building blocks of the application. And at times, you can even see specific features of the application. A Gemfile also includes hints about preference and style. And style is something most Ruby
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