Every developer has experienced an episode of painful dependency management.  Missing libs, "dll hell," and hours of wasted effort.  Been there. It's painful.

Luckily for those working in the Ruby ecosystem, there is a nice tool that helps with dependency management: RubyGems.

In this post we'll dive a little deeper into how RubyGems works with your Ruby code to properly load and manage gems.  Understanding the load process will better prepare you when things...