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In Ruby, what are local gems?

What does it mean when Ruby refers to gems as being local? i.e.: when you type in the root of your app directory, gem list, the result is:

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

actioncable (5.0.1, 5.0.0.1, 5.0.0)
actionmailer (5.0.1, 5.0.0.1, 5.0.0)
...

What does this have to do with Rails?

Solution

  • Those would be gems installed on your computer. As opposed to the ones that are available from rubygems.org.

    It's not specific to Rails, and can refer to any Ruby gem.