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Explore the pros & cons of RubyGems and its alternatives. Learn about popular competitors like Bower, NuGet, and Meteor
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What is RubyGems and what are its top alternatives?

It is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries, a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them.
RubyGems is a tool in the Package Managers category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to RubyGems

  • Bower
    Bower

    Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat. ...

  • NuGet
    NuGet

    A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension. ...

  • Meteor
    Meteor

    A Meteor application is a mix of JavaScript that runs inside a client web browser, JavaScript that runs on the Meteor server inside a Node.js container, and all the supporting HTML fragments, CSS rules, and static assets. ...

  • Composer
    Composer

    It is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them for you. ...

  • Elm
    Elm

    Writing HTML apps is super easy with elm-lang/html. Not only does it render extremely fast, it also quietly guides you towards well-architected code. ...

  • Julia
    Julia

    Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. ...

  • Homebrew
    Homebrew

    Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple didn’t. Homebrew installs packages to their own directory and then symlinks their files into /usr/local. ...

  • Nix
    Nix

    It makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments. ...

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Bower

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    Open source
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    Simple
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    Great for for project dependencies injection
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    Web components with Meteor
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    Portable dependencies Management
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    Deprecated
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    Best package (and maybe only 1) management for .NET
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      Real-time
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      Full stack, one language
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      Best app dev platform available today
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      Data synchronization
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      Javascript
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      Focus on your product not the plumbing
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      Hot code pushes
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      Open source
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      Live page updates
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      Latency compensation
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      Ultra-simple development environment
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      Real time awesome
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      Smart Packages
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      Great for beginners
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      Direct Cordova integration
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      Better than Rails
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      Less moving parts
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      It's just amazing
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      Great community support
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      Plugins for everything
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      One command spits out android and ios ready apps.
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      It just works
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      0 to Production in no time
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      Coding Speed
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      Easy deployment
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      Is Agile in development hybrid(mobile/web)
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      You can grok it in a day. No ng nonsense
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      Easy yet powerful
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      AngularJS Integration
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      Community
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      Easy Setup
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      Free
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      Nosql
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      Hookie friendly
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      High quality, very few bugs
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      Stack available on Codeanywhere
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      Real time
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      Friendly to use
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    Composer logo

    Composer

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    Dependency Manager for PHP
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    PROS OF COMPOSER
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      Must have dependency manager for PHP
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      Centralized autoload.php
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      Large number of libraries
    CONS OF COMPOSER
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        Code stays clean
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        Fun
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        Easy to understand
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        Type safety
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        Correctness
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        JS fatigue
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        Ecosystem agrees on one Application Architecture
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        Declarative
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        Friendly compiler messages
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        Fast rendering
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        If it compiles, it runs
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        Welcoming community
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        Stable ecosystem
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        'Batteries included'
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        Package.elm-lang.org
      CONS OF ELM
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        No typeclasses -> repitition (i.e. map has 130versions)
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        JS interop can not be async
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        JS interoperability a bit more involved
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        More code is required
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        No JSX/Template
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        Main developer enforces "the correct" style hard
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        No communication with users
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        Backwards compability breaks between releases

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      Julia

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      PROS OF JULIA
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        Fast Performance and Easy Experimentation
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        Designed for parallelism and distributed computation
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        Free and Open Source
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        Dynamic Type System
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        Multiple Dispatch
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        Calling C functions directly
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        Lisp-like Macros
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        Powerful Shell-like Capabilities
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        Jupyter notebook integration
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        REPL
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        String handling
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        Emojis as variable names
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        Interoperability
      CONS OF JULIA
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        Immature library management system
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        Slow program start
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        JIT compiler is very slow
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        Poor backwards compatibility
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        Bad tooling
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        No static compilation

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      PROS OF HOMEBREW
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        Clean, neat, powerful, fast and furious
      CONS OF HOMEBREW
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        Nix

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