Chocolatey vs. RubyGems.org

Chocolately is perfect if you need a robust, well-supported (by the community) package manager. It has basically every major library/tool that you need to do development. I used it specifically in UI test automation.

Incentivized

RubyGems is a great packaging library primarily because of its verbose logging information and easy to navigate system architecture. We've dealt with artifactory systems in the past for Java and JavaScript, and RubyGems just makes it a lot easier to handle the packaging and deployment of our reusable libraries. We've noticed in the past that there are times where (if all 200+ teams) are releasing at a similar time that publishing the gems can lag, but that's fairly rare.

Incentivized

• Package management
• Dependency management
• Ease of use
• Availability of libs

Incentivized

• Seemless packaging
• Well documented
• Verbose error logs
• Active community support
• Quick security fixes/releases

Incentivized

• Available software to install is not easy to find.
• You need admin rights to install all software.

Incentivized

• Lack of solid Windows support.
• Not great performance if lots of people release at the same time.

Incentivized

RubyGems has strong community support and finding issues to errors is as simple as searching for the error message you're receiving (but usually the error is clear enough without having to bother with that). Honestly, the framework is simple enough that support isn't needed much, but it has been helpful to us in the past when we have needed it.

Incentivized

On OSX machines we use brew which works if compared to Chocolatey, a lot better. You could see that on Windows machines the idea of a command line-based software installation tool is not very common, especially if you want to use tools like Python or other scripting languages.

Incentivized

RubyGems is easier to use and to troubleshoot issues overall. Sometimes when troubleshooting in other systems errors are masked and it takes a trained eye or a lot of time searching through Google trying to find out what it really means. RubyGems is very verbose and allows for quick troubleshooting of any deployment problems.

Incentivized

• Improved time to setup new machines
• Improved security due to easy update process of installed software

Incentivized

• Quick package hosting.
• Faster deployment process.
• Less troubleshooting needed during deployment.

Incentivized