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Opening a Gem – Thanks Bundler

Posted on January 14, 2011

For quite some time, I’ve been using the open_gem gem. It’s a dead simple way to open a gem in your editor and if you subscribe to John Nunemaker’s approach to Stop Googling, it fits perfectly into the workflow.

From the command line, it’s simply:

$> gem open timecop

Today, while reading bundler’s help file, I noticed the open command. It appears to do the same thing as open_gem, but without the need of an extra gem.

Now, I just type:

$> bundle open timecop

I love the world of ruby!

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To compound this, it turns out that estimation is fractal. The more fine-grained you break down the requirements, the more “edges” you will discover. This means that the more detailed you estimate, the more the total will tend towards infinity, simply due to rounding errors and the fear factors that we multiply into fine grained estimates. — Dan North