“ But the biggest mistake made in Gems was to add to the language. In Java, or C, or Python, or any other language, to include a library, you do the same thing, regardless of who installed the library, or where. But in Ruby, a gem command was added to the language. And you need the rubygems library included first in order to use that command.
Bytemark blog | Ruby gems, and when we’ll be shot of them
