On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Steve Klabnik <steve / steveklabnik.com> wrote: >> Frankly, I find the Ruby ecosystem is >> becoming increasingly complex. > > All software is becoming increasingly complex. It has been, ever since we > started using assembly rather than machine code. Such is the nature of the > beast. Of course. But there's a difference between complexity required to solve complex problems and complexity introduced without need. Unfortunately the latter seems to be quite ubiquitous these days... > That said, it's our job to manage this complexity. This is a fundamentally > hard problem, and none of it is _necceasary_ ¨Âäï Òõâù äåöåìïðíåîô® Éæ ôè> tools are too much work, just don't use those tools. Isolate exists for a > reason... You mean http://rubygems.org/gems/isolate I guess. Isn't it ironic that we introduced gem to have a single repository with automated updating etc. and now add another tool which reverses the effect? Greetings from DLL hell... Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/