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OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems, the package manager for Ruby. Over 2,000 malicious packages went up in 2 days. (www.rubyhack.ai)
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[–] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I have a really dumb question, but what is a gem?

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Not a dumb question at all. A gem is a package format for a dependency in the Ruby programming language. It’s just packaged Ruby code.

    It’s analogous to a Rust crate, a Elixir hex package, a NodeJS module and so on. Most languages use the word package or module these days to refer to the same concept. 20+ years ago we just called them libraries though (C and Java)

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