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Discussion on: My First 12 hours with Ruby

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Micah Geisel

Ah, yes, I see what you mean now! I thought you meant the Ruby ecosystem in general, but I understand now that you meant the Ruby language itself. I agree with you; this irks me too! Rails is also guilty of this, but getting better about it. At least almost all of the other gems in the Ruby ecosystem are good about following SemVer. :/

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David J Eddy

Exactly. I was handed a Rails project. Updated from Ruby 2.7 to 2.9 and it broke the app due to a class inheritance change. Very not expected behavior. :( . I had to roll the language version back to get the app to work again. I'm sure we will get to update the app dependencies eventually; I just did not expect a minor version update to wreck things to badly.

1st world problems right? :S