gems

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Editorial note

The purpose is to replace the versions of your gems in your Gemfile with the latest one.

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Quick take

Gems, or gemstones, are polished, cut stones or minerals.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of gems gathered in one view.

Gems, or gemstones, are polished, cut stones or minerals.

a compilation album released by Aerosmith in 1988 under the label Columbia.

the twelfth studio album by American singer Patti LaBelle.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gems.

N

Gems, or gemstones, are polished, cut stones or minerals.

N

a compilation album released by Aerosmith in 1988 under the label Columbia.

N

the twelfth studio album by American singer Patti LaBelle.

N

a British television soap opera produced for the ITV by Thames Television.

Example sentences

The purpose is to replace the versions of your gems in your Gemfile with the latest one.

No, deposits aren't a trove of unexploited treasures: some important gems and a lot of rubbish.

One of the real gems of the web, particular if you consider yourself a creative.

Libav has a code of conduct and it is enforced so maybe you'd have much an harder time finding such gems.

There are certain gems for Ruby on Rails dev that generate ERDs from the schema,.

There are some truly awful bestsellers out there, along with many more undiscovered gems.

All these gems, and more, from a great article and podcast [1], [2].

And that's a real shame, Kenya's grids aren't great (as few are, on this planet), but there's some real gems here and there.

As a distro packager, I find Python's packages to be much better and easier to integrate than Ruby gems.

These include gems like she's in favour of censorship or that she argues games have the ability to directly manipulate people into violence or sexism.

I find Ruby's gems, bundler and Gemfile.lock to be a much more elegant solution.

Then there were also a few gems from which I learned a lot over a few weeks of studying the same code base.

Quote examples

It takes hard knocks experience to add gems of strategies to your repertoire of "boring" reporting solutions.

AdaCore's "Gems" and other resources will help you plenty.

Moby Dick has a ton of homoerotic scenes like the man donning the whale's penis skin as a robe, or the various bed-sharing scenes with Ishmael and Queequeg including gems like "Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs over mine, and then drawing them back; so entirely sociable and free and easy we were," and "Queequeg's arm thrown over me in the most loving and affectionate manner."

Fast-forward to today - the main language I use at work is Ruby, and it is emblematic of the traits shared by all open-source languages: they do not come with "all functions", in fact most core functions (or what I would consider "core") have been delegated to libraries ("gems" as Ruby calls them).

Proper noun examples

I finally took a look at the code and found the problem -- it was a loop within a loop within a loop doing a full scan across the entire customer table disguised by the two inner loops being inside separate Gems.